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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the liv...more

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...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

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Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belong...more

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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usu...more

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What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let ...more

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations ...more

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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth...more

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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship yo...more