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"Honest dishonesty. That's quite the oxymoron " but I like the originality that you've brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, he added jokingly."
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"Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth."

"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."

"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."

"It's not ever easy telling a person what they don't want to hear. Because we love them! There will be times, we have to do things in life that will break our own heart."

"I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it."
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"Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me)."

"Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany."

"I'm not sure. But " unless I'm struggling with the darkness within " I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is."

"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."

"The male tax?'Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab."

"But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends " an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together."

"I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable."

"Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance."

"You have to take this with you too, she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. 'My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you're leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her."

"A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something."
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