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"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
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"She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one."

"At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang."

"If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm."

"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. [ ]. I'm two, and both keep their distance - Siamese twins that aren't attached."

"To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?"
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"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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