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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."
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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."
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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."
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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain."
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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."
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"I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind."
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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society

"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
Mortality

"Hardship makes the world obscure."
Hardship

"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."
Literature

"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
Communication

"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."
Observation

"I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues."
Art

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
Movies

"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows."
Observation

"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."
Humanity
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