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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil
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Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
Morton Feldman
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas Hardy
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If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
Ray William Johnson
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Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.
Paul Althaus
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The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
Carl Jung
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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
Tullian Tchividjian