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But reason didn't play a big part in the guilt I'd felt, deep in my heart, since the moment I'd seen his dead face beneath its shroud of snow. Once I'd faced it, I couldn't shake the shame. And somehow, the blame and repining sorrow changed me. I felt the vengeful stone fall from the hating hand that had wanted to throw it. I felt light, as if light itself filled me and lifted me up. And I felt free - free enough to pity Madame Zhou, and ev..
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Good is only half the truth, and truth is only half the story.
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I'm startin' a new gang, and I want you to join me.' It was my turn to laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'How about... why?' 'Why a gang?' he asked, passing back the joint. 'The usual. So we can buy guns, do a little menace and mayhem, scare people into giving us truckloads of money, spend the truckloads of money, and die in the effort.' 'Dying in the effort? That's your sales pitch?
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People say that money is the root of all evil,' Khaled told me when we met in his apartment. His English was rich with accents of New York and Arabic and the Hindi that he spoke reasonably well. 'But it's not true. It's the other way round. Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it. If you ge..
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What I am saying is that reality--as you see it, and as most people see it--is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.
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There are demons in all of us. Some of them do not mean us any harm. They just want to live inside us. Some of them want more. They want to eat the souls that hold them.
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There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me.
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his struggle there to love and to be loved in return, and his drag-footed walk along the shoreline of his Fate are the fragments of his shipwreck survival.
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syzygies
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let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.
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The pages were dog-eared, and heavily annotated in Karla's own hand. (...) She consumed her books, I saw. She devoured her books, and was unafraid to mark them, even to scar them, with her own comments and system of references.
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It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script.
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Ako s'dbata ne te razsmiva, ti prosto ne skhvashchash shegata.
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Priiatelstvoto e i vid lekarstvo i pazarite za nego poniakoga s'shcho sa cherni.
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