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There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor,
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It's impossible to be really sad when you're asleep. You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?
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It was] a beauty that sours if it isn't nourished by some goodness within.
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The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.
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Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.
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Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, 'because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that 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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THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,
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What characterises the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I'm lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be..
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Hell, no. I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.
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I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.
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Time is the web, and Fate is the spider.
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You really are one mad Irish motherfucker.
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At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
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Baptised by the sky, the world was born again, and hope washed a year's dust and blood from the mountain.
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FORTY-SEVEN We found Diva in a shriek of Divas, in the lobby of the President hotel. The three of them stopped, staring at us with well-practised aghast. Didier was in a rumpled, white linen jacket and
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What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants.
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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.
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no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.
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Sometimes the river of life takes you to the rocks. The letter,
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But I always connected to the people and the purity of their faith, rather than the religious code they followed.
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Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She's
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The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss.
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The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, is that it works so well.
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If we do not suffer with our pain, then we have not learned about anything but ourselves.
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When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
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Fate always gives you two choices: the one you should take, and the one you do.
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We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.
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The heart doesn't know how to quit because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay there, in that shine within yourself, the new plac..
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Arrogance is pride's calling card, and crowds everything with Self. Gratitude is humility's calling card, and is the space left inside for love.
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The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!
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Our life, it probably began inside of the ocean,' Johnny said quietly. 'About four thousand million years before now. Probably near hot places, like volcanoes, under the sea.' I turned to look at him. 'And for almost all of that long time, all the living things were water things, living inside the sea. Then, a few hundred million years ago, maybe a little more--just a little while, really, in the big history of the Earth--the living things ..
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In Prabaker's way of courtship, a young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: he brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.
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remembered an incident from the prison. In that other world-within-a-world, back then, I moved into a new prison cell and discovered a tiny mouse there. The creature entered through a cracked air vent, and crept into the cell every night. Patience and obsessional focus are the gems we mine in the tunnels of prison solitude. Using them, and tiny morsels of food, I bribed the little mouse, over several weeks, and eventually trained it to eat ..
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dobry mezczyzna ma tyle sily, ile potrzebuje wlasciwa kobieta
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Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear.
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There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
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Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
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Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.
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Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it.
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Mysle, ze madrosc to tylko spryt wypatroszony z odwagi. Wolalabym byc sprytna niz madra.
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milosc to droga jednokierunkowa. Milosc, tak jak szacunek, nie sluzy do brania, tylko do dawania.
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Milczenie potrafi ranic jak bat
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Kazde uderzenie ludzkiego serca jest kosmosem mozliwosci
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hate politics, and politicians even more. They make a religion of being greedy. It's unforgivable.
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