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"One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs."
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"The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love."
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"If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God."
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"For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society."
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"Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man."
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"Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?"
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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
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"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"
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"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."
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"When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts."
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"Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching " a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn't sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason
"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism
"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust
"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
Faith
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."
Truth
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