“If you wish to attain holy recollection, you will do so not by receiving but by denying.”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
The Sayings of Light and Love
“Do you deny the charges?”
“I neither confirm nor deny them; they are ridiculous.”
Source: Planet of Adventure (1968-1970), The Dirdir (1969), Chapter 20 (pp. 408-409)
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