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

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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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Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been t...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because ...more

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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the onl...more

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In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to s...more

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Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

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Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be whe...more

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Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

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Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.