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Inside, the doctor filled an eyedropper with goat milk and began to drip it into the back of the marten's throat. It filled him with immense medical satisfaction when eventually it urinated on the knee of his trousers. This indicated healthy renal functioning.
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He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupted existence. The other two joined in the game with enthusiasm, and soon all three of them were howling with laughter and emptying bottles at a rate which would have alarmed even a depressed Scandinavian.
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That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.
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no one is more truly themselves than when they are sick or injured. That's when the qualities come out.
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She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well.
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All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors.
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There was between 1821 and 1913 a prolonged and atrocious holocaust which we have chosen to forget, and from which we have learned absolutely nothing. In 1821, between 26 March and Easter Sunday, in the name of liberty, the southern Greek Christians tortured and massacred 15,000 Greek Muslim civilians, looted their possessions, and burned their dwellings. The Greek hero Kolokotronis boasted without qualm that so many were the corpses that h..
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Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.
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Laska je prechodne silenstvi, vybuchne jako sopka a potom opadne. A kdyz opadne, musis se rozhodnout. Musis zjistit, zdali je vase koreny propleteny takovym zpusobem, ze vas rozchod neni vubec myslitelny. Protoze prave tohle je laska. Laska neni ta bezdechnost, neni to vzruseni, nejsou to halasne sliby vecne vasne, neni to touha parit se ctyriadvacet hodin denne a neni to, kdyz v noci zustanes vzhuru a predstavujes si, ze liba kazdy zahyb t..
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It sometimes happens that in relatively powerless and impoverished countries there arise men of enormous vision who are frustrated and offended by the limitations of their lives and seek to reach out for the stars on behalf of themselves and their nations.
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A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish ... well, God knows. Anyway,
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The dead can read tears.
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You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.
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Quite often the dolphins save the lives of those who are drowning, and sometimes they dolphins make a mistake and try to save those who are not drowning at all but are really diving for turtles. That is something that one just has to put up with from time to time, and it serves to prove how simpatico the animals are.
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There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time,
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There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.
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for the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.
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He felt his throat constrict. and was overcome with an emotion that he could not name. because it was a mixture of so many.
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Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey.
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No one is every only one thing. Inside one person there are so many different people, and quite often they're at war with each other, and sometimes one of them is winning, and sometimes another. We're all so hard to understand, aren't we? I don't even understand myself.
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Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..
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There is nothing at all wrong with our laws and institutions and our constitution, which are all democratic and enlightened. What is wrong is that they are enforced by people who do not consider themselves bound by them.
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Lord Jesus, Son of God,' he prayed. 'If you're not going to do anything, I will.
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Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.
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What's the news of the war?' The doctor twisted the ends of his moustache and said, 'Germany is taking everything, the Italians are playing the fool, the French have run away, the Belgians have been overrun whilst they were looking the other way, the Poles have been charging tanks with cavalry, the Americans have been playing baseball, the British have been drinking tea and adjusting their monocles, the Russians have been sitting on their h..
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Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside.
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few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,
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Only an island as lackadaisical as this would allow itself to be infested by such troupes of casual and impertinent goats.
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The oligarchy was divided into Liberals and Conservatives, who were united in their terror of communism after the success of the Cuban Revolution, especially since many of them had had interests in the brothels and casinos of Havana; others had had interests in pharmaceutical companies that manufactured drugs to cure the diseases spread by the former, and some in supplying guns to be used by gangs struggling for control of the latter. Howev..
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to believe there's so many dogs that all look the same.' Nancy smiled to herself. Red Dog was everybody's dog now,
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Distinguee? In what sense might a maid be distinguee?
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as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history.
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One is only young once, but in her case it was once too often.
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Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
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Quando morrem aqueles que amamos, temos de viver por eles. Temos de ver as coisas pelos seus olhos. Temos de lembrar como e que eles costumavam dizer as coisas, e usar as palavras que eles usavam. Temos de agradecer o facto de podermos fazer coisas que eles ja nao podem fazer, e tambem de sentir uma grande tristeza por isso acontecer.
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A pesar de su incalculable riqueza y poder marchaba hacia la muerte con el convencimiento de que moriria sin ser amado ni respetado, y que nadie lloraria por el; que su muerte ya estaba siendo precedida por una reunion de buitres, que finalmente su vida habia sido mas absurda y menos satisfactoria que la de un retrasado mental congenito sin extremidades ni organos de reproduccion.
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entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself
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He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street.
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A todo o momento vejo coisas que gostaria que visses, gostaria que estivesses aqui para as veres com os teus proprios olhos. Procuro ver coisas para ti, e guarda-las na minha memoria, e tenho a fantasia de que se me concentrar mesmo muito, posso faze-las chegar a ti, para que tu as vejas nos teus sonhos. Como se a vida pudesse ser assim.
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I would say to the priest that God made me as I am, that I had no choice, that He must have made me like this for a purpose, that He knows the ultimate reasons for all things and that therefore it must be all to the good that I am as I am, even if we cannot know what that good is. I can say to the priest that if God is the reason for all things, then God is to blame and I should not be condemned.
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This rule is that people always think that if they are very expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.
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I am no philosopher, but I know this. Your religions cause wars and prevent marriages. There will be no peace on earth until every synagogue, every mosque, every church, and every temple is razed to the ground or made into a barn, and when that happens, no one will be happier than the Lord God Himself.
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Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped.
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There was once a painter who traveled into the cordillera in order to paint an invisible picture of Christ. When he finished, the local Indians scrambled up the rocks to examine it and found that it was, in fact, a picture of Viracocha. A Chinaman passing by went up to see what it was that was causing such excitement and found to his surprise that on the rock was a picture of the Buddha. The painter stuck to his assertion that it was Christ..
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