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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."

"Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past."

"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."

"Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious."

"I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks."

"A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently."

"It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you."

"Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word "polite" because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives."
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"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

"I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us."

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

"The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came."

"The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information."

"Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe-with charity-that there is still room for Hope."

"The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea."

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."
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