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"Pretending,' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.''But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'Madame Crommelynck studied her hands, moodily, both sides. 'Sophistry', she pronounced. I'm not sure what 'sophistry' means so I kept shtum."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
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"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."
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"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."
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"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
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"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
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"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."
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"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."
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"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
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"Coffee's the elixir of life."
Routine
"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."
Morality
"Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace."
Memory
"Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me."
Politics
"This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think."
Faith
"I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People."
Support
"This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator."
Love
"Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction."
Truth
"She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman."
Literature
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