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None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves ...more

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Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

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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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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where ...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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Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

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