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lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
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Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
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practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.
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Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255
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Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)
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Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.
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There's a pattern. Never, never doubt that there's a pattern. There's a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.
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Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley.
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I was wondering if the scene in the drawing-room had been a triumph or a disaster or merely a chaotic piece of bad taste verging on bathos, but I reflected that the only important question was whether I had communicated my message to my parents. I continued to smoke my cigarette and occasionally I shuddered. I wondered dimly how anyone ever survived their families.
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My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.
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and daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.
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You have here a parable, the subject of which might be called The Persistence of Truth ... Whatever fears, adversities, or doubts assail you, go forward calmly in the knowledge that the truth persists, and will prove itself in persisting. Though prayer be hard, though your soul walk in darkness, though your spiritual memories be shadowed by many a doubt, go forward secure in the knowledge that the truth of God endureth to all generations, a..
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There is no timetable for grief," said Bronwen Morgan. "Grief isn't a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief's time is beyond time, and time itself ... isn't very important."
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One must be rational about such matters and being rational need not mean being cold.
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'Friendship's best,' I said, 'and friendship's forever because no baby can come along to spoil it.'
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To be distracted is pardonable. To be incoherent is simply unobliging.
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'The English don't have opinions about the Irish. They have prejudices.'
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'Little girls don't stay playmates. Little girls become big girls and big girls become sweethearts.'
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