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"In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation."
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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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"Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it."
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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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"My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word which here means "person who trains bats." The audience may feel a prick of fear, as if sharp pins are hidden in thier hats. My co-star lives on what we call a brae. His solitude might not be just an act. A piece of mail fails to arrive one day. This poignant melodrama's based on fact.The curtain falls just as the knot unties; the silence is broken by the one who dies."
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"Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves."
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"Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear:"I would rather eat a bowl of vampire batsthan spend an hour with Carmelita Spats."The Baudelaires giggled and then covered their mouths so nobody would know they were laughing at Carmelita."That was great," Klaus said. "I like the part about the bowl of bats."
Humor


"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read."
Learning


"Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess."
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"Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good."
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"Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair."
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"Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me."
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"A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented."
Education


"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
Adversity
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