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"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
Society
"True sorrow is as rare as true love."
Love
"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
Truth
"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
Time
"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."
Faith
"Life could sometimes be grand."
Happiness
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
Experience
"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."
Loss
"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."
Nature
"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
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"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."
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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
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"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."
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Personal Development
"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
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"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."
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"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
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