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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mys...more

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Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

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Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

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I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed....more

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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words dr...more

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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left t...more

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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft ro...more

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What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for ...more

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Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

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There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the li...more

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One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot c...more

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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

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But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that w...more

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She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand ...more