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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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"Be courageous enough to forgive yourself, never forget to be compassionate to yourself."
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"Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies."
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"Forgive and be happy."
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"Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness."
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"Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy."
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"The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional."
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"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."
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"No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is 'vyavasthit' [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don't tell anyone, 'you did wrong'. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it."
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"A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends."
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"People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always."
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"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."
Power

"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

"This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think."
Faith

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."
Justice

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."
Art

"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."
Creativity

"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."
Experience

"Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners."
Society

"At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind."
Philosophy

"Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience."
Morality
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