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"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."
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"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."

"Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love."

"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."

"You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger."

"A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful."

"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

"Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you."

"A woman does not marry with a man for his wealth, unless he is too rich and a man does not marry with a girl for her beauty, unless she is too beautiful."

"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."

"Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
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"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes."

"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."

"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."

"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
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