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"As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it."
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"Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly."

"The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune."

"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."

"The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."

"Money promises more than it delivers, love delivers more than it promises."

"It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one."

"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"

"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."

"When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it."

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music."
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"You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you.""No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my task of checking on you less onerous. I'm glad you're awake. You snore abominably."I let this comment pass. "You've grown." I observed. "Yes. So have you. And you've been sick. And you slept quite a long time. And now you're awake and bathed and fed. You still look terrible. But you no longer smell. It's late afternoon now. Are there any other obvious facts you'd like to review?"


"We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread."


"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."


"It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country."


"Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement."


"I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!"
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