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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
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Personal Development
"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."
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Personal Development
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
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Personal Development
"I miss you something awful sometimes."
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Personal Development
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
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Personal Development
"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."
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Personal Development
"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
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Personal Development
"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."
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Personal Development
"I'm not offended until you think I'm offended."
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Personal Development
"My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue."
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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
End
"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
Happiness
"The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction."
Knowledge
"The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."
Literature
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
Art
"He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling. She grew still to listen."
Healing
"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
Environment
"There is no break in the wholeness of time."
Time
"You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement."
Activism
"They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes."
Respect
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