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"There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. "My name is Augustus Waters, he said. "I'm seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I'm just here today at Isaac's request."And how are you feeling? asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand. Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."
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"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."
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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."
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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."
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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."
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"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."
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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."
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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."
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"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."
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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."
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"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
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"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
Reality

"Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn't have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly an American Indian or a First Person or an Indigenous Person, and they did not have Latin or any other kind of written language then. So did Ovid matter because he was Ovid or because he lived in Ancient Rome?"
Identity

"You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."
Communication

"That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without."
Fear

"Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt."
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"How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"
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"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
Forgiveness

"You don't get to have an opinion on whether .999 is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they've figured out."
Science

"I was born into BolAvar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."
Hope
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