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"He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it."
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"If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God."
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"Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man."
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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
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"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"
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"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."
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"Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave."
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"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
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"To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea."
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"When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered."
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"Marriage is a sacred-commitment."
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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
Time

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
Life

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."
Man

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
God

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
World

"But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Focus

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
Doubt

"She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things."
Emotion

"You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God."
Morality

"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."
Life
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