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Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument. Jealousy can raise the dead with a single, spiteful taunt, or hate a perfect stranger for nothing more than the sound of his name.
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Istinata e, che ne s'shchestvuvat dobri ili loshi khora -- reche toi. -- Dobrota ili zlina pritezhavat samo delata im. Ima dobri dela ili loshi dela. Khorata sa prosto khora -- onova, koeto gi sv'rzva s dobroto i zloto, e onova, koeto v'rshat ili otkazvat da v'rshat. Istinata e, che edin mig na istinska obich v s'rtseto na vseki -- na nai-blagorodniia chovek na zemiata, ili na nai-pokvareniia -- s'd'rzha tsialoto prednaznachenie, i protses,..
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In the beginning we feared everything--animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky--everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No-one knows why anyone does anything. No-one tells the truth. No-one is happy. No-one is safe. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the li..
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I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage.
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The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.
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It's a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust.
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WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,
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We are made out of stars, you and I.
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Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them
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Aunque tarde mucho tiempo y tuve que recorrer gran parte del mundo para aprender lo que ahora se sobre el amor, el destino y las decisiones que tomamos, la esencia de ese conocimiento me llego en un solo instante, encadenado a una pared mientras me torturaban. De algun modo me di cuenta entonces, entre los gritos que llenaban mi cabeza, que incluso en aquella maniatada y sangrienta impotencia, seguia conservando mi libertad; la libertad de ..
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The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was.
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When we say that this definition of good and evil is objective, what we mean is that it is as objective as we can be at this time, and to the best of our knowledge about the universe. This definition is based on what we know about how the universe works. It is not based on the revealed wisdom of any one faith or political movement. It is common to the best principles of all of them, but it is based on what we know rather than what we believ..
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They make a religion of being greedy.
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I don't like letters. Any dark past is a vampire, feeding on the blood of the living moment, and letters are the bats.
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Manchmal lieben wir nur mit der Hoffnung. Manchmal weinen wir mit allem ausser Tranen. Und am Ende bleiben nur: Liebe und ihre Pflicht, Trauer und ihre Wahrheit. Am Ende haben wir nichts anderes - nichts anderes, woran wir uns festhalten konnen, bis der Morgen dammert.
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And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we're connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.
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almost everyone I've ever loved is dead. And the only way to live with the constant cull of what you love is to take a little of that cold grave into yourself, every time.
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The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
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Then there were the people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konarak; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Parsee, Jain, Animist; fair skin and dark, green eyes and golden brown and black; every different face and form of that extravagant variety, that incomparable beauty, India.
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Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love. I felt it then, and I let it happen, the longing for him to return. The power in his eyes, and the pride when I did something he admired, and the love in his laugh. The longing: the longing for the lost.
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Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping fingers to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever.
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Vseki udar na choveshkoto s'rtse e tsiala vselena ot v'zmozhnosti" -- chesto povtariashe toi. Stori mi se, che nai- setne s'm razbral kakvo e iskal da kazhe s tova. Opitvashe se da mi obiasni, che vsiaka choveshka volia pritezhava silata da preobrazi s'dbata si. Vinagi s'm si mislel, che s'dbata e neshcho neizmenimo, otredeno za vseki ot nas oshche pri razhdaneto mu, i vechno kato p'tia na zvezdite. No vnezapno os'znakh, che zhivot't e mnog..
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Probabilmente la nostra vita e iniziata nell'oceano. Circa quattro milioni di anni fa. Probabilmente vicino a fonti di calore come i vulcani sommersi. Poi, cinquecento milioni di anni fa, o forse poco piu, gli organismi hanno cominciato a vivere anche sulla terra. [...] Ma in un certo senso si puo dire che anche se abbiamo abbandonato il mare dopo milioni d'anni di vita nelle sue profondita, l'oceano e rimasto dentro di noi. Quando una donn..
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The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang and shouted and laughed, hardening ourselves to what we'd done in life, and what we'd lost. And the moon graced two fallen fools, on a fallen day, with sunlight purified by a mirror in the sky, made of stone.
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The force is always with you, if you give up force,
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If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else.
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But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.
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Karla says that depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad.' 'Well she is wrong!' he declared...'There are many animals that can express their happiness, but only the human animal has the genius to express a magnificent sadness. And for me it is something special; a daily meditation. Sadness is my one and my only art.' - Didier
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You should let Jesus in your heart.' 'Jesus is in every heart, brother.' 'Are you serious?' 'Of course. I love that guy. Who doesn't?' 'A lot of people don't,' he laughed. 'Some people hate Jesus.' 'No. Brilliant mind, loving heart, significant penance: Jesus was the real deal. They might know Christians they don't like, but nobody hates Jesus.
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In all the things that really matter, we are one. Love and faith, trust and empathy, family and friendship, sunsets and songs of awe: in every wish born in our humanity we are one. Our humankind, at this moment in our destiny, is a child blowing on a dandelion, without thought or understanding. But the wonder in the child is the wonder in us, and there's no limit to the good we can do when human hearts connect. It's the truth of us. It's th..
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We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
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Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
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The past reflects eternally between two mirrors--the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
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Tomorrow,' she said, 'when you go to Prabaker's village, try to relax completely, and go with the experience. Just ... let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.
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A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.
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A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And
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The word family is derived from the word famulus, meaning a servant, and in its early usage, familia, it literally meant the servants of a household. In its essence, the longing for family, and the ravenousness that the loss of family creates in us, isn't just for belonging: it's for the grace that abides in serving those we love.
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If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.
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It is always a fool's mistake, Didier once said to me, to be alone with someone you shouldn't have loved.
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each one of us, we all have to earn our future,' she said slowly. 'I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, if we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is--a way of earning the future.
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So it begins, this story, like everything else--with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.
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I never told her that--what her affectionate and unconditional acceptance meant to me. So much, too much, of the good that I felt in those years of exile was locked in the prison cell of my heart: those tall walls of fear; that small, barred window of hope; that hard bed of shame. I do speak out now. I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving,..
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I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.
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Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to--really listened to--is the second-best thing in the world.
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