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"I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it."
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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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"Life is all I have, it is enough!"
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"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."
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"Those who want rain, must also accept the mud."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life."
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"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."
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"People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth 'Knowing'."
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"You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you."
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"Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character."
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"Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache."
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"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."
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"I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me," I say quickly."I want to, though."
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"You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise or destruction. Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness. Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either."
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"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."
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"It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever."
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"So many things become beautiful when you really look."
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"The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look."
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"Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking."
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"But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven."
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