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"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."
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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built."

"Sometimes love doesn't look like what we think it should look like. Sometimes it's paradoxical. Sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone. Sometimes we have to be more honest than we thought we'd ever have to be or more supportive than we are taught is appropriate. When we traverse those boundaries, that's when we really understand what this whole love thing is all about. We become more than just human. We become part of the giant, beautiful ever-changing reality of life. By loving without limits, we become wise, strong, and beautiful. We become more of what we already are."

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."
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"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."


"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."


"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."


"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."


"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."


"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."


"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."
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