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Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Jacques Maritain

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Jacques Maritain
Age: 90 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 18
Died: 1973
Died: April 28
Diplomat
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
Thirst
Emptiness
Faster
Needs

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