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Quotes by Author
"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience."
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"Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down."
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"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."
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"She's an absolute idiot! she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus."
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"Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle."
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"Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness."
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"Like an empty bucket, my soul rings hollow when empty vibrates with emptiness, hollow sound of loneliness. Every cell in my body does not want to be alone.My loneliness is frightening, an all consuming thought."
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"How's Her Royal Bitchiness? "Alive. "Pity."
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"Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing."
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"People are successful because they think and act like successful people."
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"I see how you look at me, spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. It's because he can't accept the hate inside of himself that he projects it onto us."
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"I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick."
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"Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth."
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"We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, 'This is who I am and I am okay. This is simple not easy.'"
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"Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires."
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"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."
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"It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on."
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"Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party."
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"Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence."
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"It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano."
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"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."
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"Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day."
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"Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July."
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"When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments."
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"Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration."
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"You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes."
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"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
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"It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets."
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"Coincidence is not just only a road to facts but also a call to ponder."
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"Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value."
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"The main goal of organizing people is to make them laborers."
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"In this life, when you deny someone an apology,you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness."
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