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“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking ...”
“Sometimes a person can say Im sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.”
“Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.”
“Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence.”
“True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the f...”
“I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great”
“I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great”
“In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mothers feel...”
“We make art so that we can feel life. We do science to understand it.”
“To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.”
“Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.”
“Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a ...”
“I know the difference between sadness and depression. Clinical depression has no source from which it springs-it just is. Intractable sadness has nothing to do with synapses, or brain chemistry, or...”
“She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves.”
“When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.”
“My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categ...”
“She never indulged in self-pity, nor did she point the finger of blame for her misfortunes. Her heart was clear of bitterness. I believe that if a persons strength of character is measured at the e...”
“It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.”
“I don't know anything anymore”
“The measure of a mans character may be the manner in which he treats the one who can do him no good, but the measure of his heart is the manner in which he loves the one who has hurt him. He who is...”
