"Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out."

Regret, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom

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"Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out."

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"It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'."

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"Sometimes you do not like the situation. But you have to endure for awhile."

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"She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything."

Nick Hornby, English Writer

Regret, Emotion, Pattern, Reflection

"Whoever hates, harm."

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"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!"

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"Get busy living or get busy dying."

Life

"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."

Justice

"There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true."

Art

"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."

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"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."

Grief

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."

Advice

"I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on."

Healing

"He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again."

Religion

"He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel - they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing."

Religion

"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."

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