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"Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives."
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"To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new."

"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."

"Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment."

"You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made."

"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."

"Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems."

"And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts."
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"Love does not last forever, then?'He asked me the same thing this morning,' she said. 'No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived."

"Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word."

"My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones."

"Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong."

"Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it."

"All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?"

"Why is it,' she asked, snuggling closer, 'that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?"

"Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude."

"You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you."
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