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It is not enough for the past to be past. It must also be truly overcome – it must have lost all causal connection with the present – so that only th… - Jean Guitton
" "It is not enough for the past to be past. It must also be truly overcome – it must have lost all causal connection with the present – so that only the spiritual connection remains, which is the connection between image and reality, between figure and fulfilment.
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Jean Guitton (1901 - 1999), French philosopher.
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Joan puts God's will above her virginity. She says that she “has offered her virginity as a vow for as long as God pleases”. This concern for the hierarchy of values, this idea of “God first”, is always evident in her. Joan is a virgin because God inspired her to be so; she is not a virgin of her own free will or choice. (pp. 34-35)
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