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"All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable."
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"You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are."

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

"It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the world and riches do not belong to the good things, I have already learned as a child. I have known it for a long time, but I have experienced only now. And now I know it, don't just know it in my memory, but in my eyes, in my heart, in my stomach. Good for me, to know this!"

"Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!"

"Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn't bring happiness."

"Mental understanding cannot change our life, unless it becomes real understanding."

"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."

"Give it time. The weak in character always get tired of pretending. Their true colors will show."

"The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion."

"Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life."
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"To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do... Don't you worry that John Faa's heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion."

"She shook her head and whispered, 'No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!''You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!"

"She delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her."

"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world."

"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose."

"She allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed flickering at the edge of her mind: it was the rarest thing of all - a man whom she knew at once, and without any qualification, to be her equal."

"The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage."
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