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"Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling-when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world."
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"To celebrate man is to celebrate God."
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."
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"The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect."
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"For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers."
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"Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness."
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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
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"Joy in the Holy spirit is one of the signs of the kingdom of God."
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"Live with God, have faith in God - it is true happiness."
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"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
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"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
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"But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn't even begin to understand."
Grief
"Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength."
Strength
"A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience."
Youth
"Le Marais?''It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay."
Paris
"Don't you think it's actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you've done all that stuff?''Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?''I'm just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you'd led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.''I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you're stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.' He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. 'So if you're asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks."
Adventure
"She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute."
Romance
"Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith."
Faith
"There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove."
Time
"So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark."
Love
"You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises."
Living
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