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"That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness."
"Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes, perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness."
"If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be, if it doesn't it never was."
"In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid."
"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."
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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."
"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
"The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose."
"People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things."
"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."
"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
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