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“In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth without visible function is much more intolerable because nobody can understand why it shou...”
“Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrt, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in nam...”
“You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?”
“Nobody is wired wrong because theres no wrong and right in the way we are.”
“I guess thats the thing about riding on cloud nineit cant last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.”
“Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys show them these words when they cant remember me.”
“Behind the door was where bad things happen. No matter how many blankets I used or extra pairs of panties I wore. None of it mattered. The monster always came. His face obscured in the shadows, par...”
“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?”
“If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!”
“I cried because sometimes no matter what you try to hide behind letters or texts or emails or a busy schedule life still finds a way to barrel through all the distractions. And life still hurts. Ev...”
“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God's command or the cus...”
“The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.”
“A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.”
“Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God and like sight it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside and see whether you have sig...”
“In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?”
“A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.”
“To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!”
“The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
“Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human for...”
