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John Fowles

"Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is."

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"Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life is not judged just by the heart beats, but by the way you accept and overcome the challenges of life."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"

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Amber Hurdle

"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free."

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"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."

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"Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life."

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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
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"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."
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"I needed a new mystery."
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"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
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"Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her."
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"Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."
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"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
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"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
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