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"Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf's, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway's. Barcelona is GaudA's and Rome is da Vinci's. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I'd like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart."

"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life."
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"Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up."

"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."

"And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?"

"You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked."

"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"

"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."

"I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles."
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