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"I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others."
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"Do not depreciate a creation of God."
"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
"Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality."
"The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation."
"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
"The sweetest apples are eaten first."
"The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified."
"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
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"I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it."
"A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know."
"Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity."
"Nor do I like being told upsetting news-unless there is a good reason. I can't help but feel that there is an element of cruelty, if not sadism, in friends telling one another upsetting things for no reason except to observe their reactions."
"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
"We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it."
"I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes."
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