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The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one pos...

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Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the...

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Scott LynchThe Lies of Locke Lamora

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

Isabella." He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. ...

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How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

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When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel...

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There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity an...

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By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and enga...

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Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and ...

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What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience o...

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Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in o...

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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotion...

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C. S. LewisGod in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of ...

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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...

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I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I ...

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... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat,...

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And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi...

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For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can...

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Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I di...

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... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a su...

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I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwant...

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George R. R. MartinA Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself int...

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He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplici...

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Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had fo...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is t...

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart ...

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Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also...

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How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...

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Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such ...

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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of ...

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But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizoph...

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I see the pricks of blood the spear has left in his shoulder, and when Mutt slides the door shut, I ...

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Attention is the beginning of devotion.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

No, my dog used to gaze at me,paying me the attention I need,the attention requiredto make a vain pe...

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I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,embracing the lost bouquet of your body,and searching for the...

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In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love ...

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Pablo Neruda100 Love Sonnets

I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,n...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devo...

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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.