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"Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are."
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"The day she realized they were never meant to be, is the day she now calls her - Birthday."
"A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments."
"It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the world and riches do not belong to the good things, I have already learned as a child. I have known it for a long time, but I have experienced only now. And now I know it, don't just know it in my memory, but in my eyes, in my heart, in my stomach. Good for me, to know this!"
"Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life."
"Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!"
"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."
"Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value."
"Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and-oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point."
"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."
"Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense."
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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God."
"Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories - cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful."
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
"The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school."
"The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true."
"St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'."
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