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"Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest - where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge."
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"A man's conquest depends on his knowledge of Jesus Christ."
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"In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life."
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"A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes."
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"This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief."
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"I could forget that part, but it had to have been true."
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"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
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"He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."
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"Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language."
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"The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago."
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"If you continue to live in your past after coming to Jesus and accepting Him as Lord and Savior, then you are still a long way from moving forward."
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"What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?"
Life
"We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us."
Life
"For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky."
Nature
"The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart."
Memory
"I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college."
Trauma
"I gazed up as if I hadn't heard, but what I was thinking was, tellme more about the pretty girls. I was embarrassed for wanting it, itwas base, what did pretty matter? I had thought that so many timeswith my mother. A person didn't need to be beautiful, they justneeded to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was theway I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it."
Beauty
"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."
Memory
"You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem."
Religion
"I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all."
Decision
"I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."
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