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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
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Personal Development
"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."
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Personal Development
"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."
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Personal Development
"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
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Personal Development
"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."
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Personal Development
"When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
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"How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste."
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"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
Attention
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
Friendship
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
Despair
"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
World
"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."
Art
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
Reading
"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
Imagination
"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."
Law
"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."
Heart
"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."
Dream
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