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"Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us."
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
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"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"
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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."
"If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation."
"Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me""You mean he makes you more you, don't you?""I guess you could put it that way."
"And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God."
"But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career."
"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."
"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come."
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love."
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