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"It's only life. We all get through it."
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"Patience brings perseverance."
"A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn."
"Life demands discomfort and pain."
"One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks."
"Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."
"I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth " a small machine."
"Love is what remains after the falling in love is gone."
"Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct."
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"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."
"Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires..."
"You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do."
"There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought I was, I'm something twisted and terrible, terrible."
"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."
"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."
"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote."
"The divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals."
"Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch."
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