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"We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on."
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"When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss."
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Personal Development
"I've learned that the most depressed people always seem to be the happiest."
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Personal Development
"We see her go through dangerous mood-swings, but I tried never to come right out and say "Annie was depressed and possibly suicidal that day" or "Annie seemed particularly happy that day."If I have to tell you, I lose. If, on the other hand, I can show you a silent, dirty-haired woman who compulsively gobbles cake and candy, then have you draw the conclusion that Annie is in the depressive part of a manic-depressive cycle, I win."
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"In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?"
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"Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem."
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"I'm afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are."
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"Meditation is act of thinking purely."
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"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."
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"Meditation nourishes the mind."
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"Let go of all your worries, embrace hope."
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"As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment."
Childhood
"Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all."
Morality
"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you."
Emotion
"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone."
Life
"There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it."
Survival
"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."
Journey
"The holy stone looked for all the world like a small iron pineapple, its surface divided into squares by deep grooves, a tarnished silver-steel handle or lever held tight to the side. In ancient times the pineapple was ever the symbol of welcome, though the church used the objects in a different way. Apparently, each theological student of good family and destined for high office was given one on beginning their training and forbidden from pulling the lever on pain of excommunication. A test of obedience they called it. A test of curiosity I called it. Clearly the church wanted bishops who lacked the imagination for exploration and questioning."
Religion
"A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that's gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change."
Courage
"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl."
Ethics
"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."
Violence
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