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"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."
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"All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable."

"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."

"Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within."

"If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past."

"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."

"It's become impossible to deny he means something to me."

"Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life."

"Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!"

"And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened."

"Do not die without realizing yourself."
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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."


"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."


"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."


"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."


"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."


"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."


"He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land."
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