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"Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete."
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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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"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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"Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave."
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"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
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"To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea."
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"When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered."
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
Power
"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."
History
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Work
"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."
Thought
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
Act
"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight
"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."
Time
"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
God
"Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century."
Being
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