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"When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this."
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"A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes."

"Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language."

"To escape death, she'd become death."

"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."

"Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold."

"If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company."

"A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm."

"If you can endure anything, you can become anything."

"The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision."
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"I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them."

"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."

"The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do."

"I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting."

"Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."

"Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief."

"Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to."
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