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"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"
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"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."
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"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"
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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."
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"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"
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"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."
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"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."
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"Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own."
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"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."
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"An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . ."
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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."
Evil
"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking."
Reflection
"It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard."
Advice
"Success tempts many to their ruin."
Success
"I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty."
Liberty
"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty."
Character
"The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind."
Intelligence
"In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name."
Change
"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe."
Power
"That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer."
Justice
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