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We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
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What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.
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For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.
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history
writing
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Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.
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And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
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Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhe) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.
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The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
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family
loved-ones
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There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.
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Kate Mosse |
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One cannot always marry the person one loves...
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love
kate-mosse
sepulchre
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There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
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languedoc-trilogy
sepulchre
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Kate Mosse |
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If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.
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There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
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universe
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Kate Mosse |
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Pas a pas se va luenh.
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Kate Mosse |
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Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
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life
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Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.
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Kate Mosse |
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History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.
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Kate Mosse |
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we are who we are because of those we we choose to love and because of those who love us
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Kate Mosse |
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And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.
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Kate Mosse |
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What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.
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Kate Mosse |
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Music is a personal response to vibration.
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Kate Mosse |
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The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.
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life
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void
mystery
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What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise.
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Kate Mosse |
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It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.
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Kate Mosse |
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the bravest act of war is love.
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Kate Mosse |
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You well know that if a lie is repeated often enough, in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary, even the most level-headed of men start to believe in it. Falsehood easily becomes accepted truth.
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Aber jede noch so kleine Verbesserung meines Zustandes entfernte mich weiter von George, und in Wahrheit war seine Gesellschaft die einzige, nach der mich verlangte. Ich empfand es als Verrat, dass ich lernte ohne ihn zu leben.
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Kate Mosse |
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Aber nachdem so viele auf dieselbe Art gebrandmarkt worden waren, wurde es zum Symbol eines guten Charaktern. Ein Ehrenzeichen. Ja.
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God is greater than anything man can comprehend. He sees all. Forgives all our sins. He expects no more than for us each to do our best to serve Him.
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whatever age you are, you will always be his daughter, his little girl. He cannot help but want to protect you. It is the way of things.
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Kate Mosse |
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The suffering of those we love is harder to bear than anything we feel on our own behalf.
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Kate Mosse |
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The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before.
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hope
smile
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It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this.
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Kate Mosse |
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Die Toten hinterlassen ihre Schatten, einen Nachhall des Raumes, den sie einst bewohnten. Sie suchen uns heim, werden nie schwacher oder alter als wir. Wir betrauern nicht nur den Verlust ihrer Zukunft, sondern auch den der unseren.
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Kate Mosse |
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Aber das hat dich krank gemacht, fuhr sie fort. Nicht sein Tod, sondern das danach.
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Kate Mosse |
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Nahestehende zu uberleben erfordert eine besondere Art von Mut, sagte sie leise.
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Kate Mosse |
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Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafur das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, aufgeben musste.
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Kate Mosse |
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Wie sehr wollte ich sie vor dem Schmerz des Erinners bewahren.
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Kate Mosse |
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Ich vermochte kaum den Kopf hochzuhalten. Ich wollte mich befreien, dem Gefangnis meiner Erinnerung entfliehen.
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Kate Mosse |
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In meinem Krankenzimmer herrschte ein Kommen und Gehen. Arzte, die Stationsschwester und ihre Schar von Pflegerinnen in gestarkten Trachten und gummibesohlten Schuhen. Vordergrundig schien sich die Geschichte zu wiederholen. Ein Sanatorium in Sussex, ein Krankenhaus in Fois, ein Patient, der mit dem Leben nicht zurechtkam.
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Kate Mosse |
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Die derzeitigen und fruheren Bewohner von Nulle wussten, wie abgrundige Trauer den Geist zerfrisst.
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Kate Mosse |
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It is a tale that begins, as it will end, in a graveyard where the bones and the spiders and the worms inhabit the cold earth.
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