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"The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."

"Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures."

"When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight."

"It is gracious to overlook an offence."

"Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies."

"You are so much more than your mistakes."

"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."

"When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one."

"Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy."
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"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."


"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."


"I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew."


"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."


"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."


"In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one."


"There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children."
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