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• Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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• Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Expression, Simplicity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Reading, Novelists

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Hands, Rivers

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• Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

  dream hampton

  Inspirational, Relationship, People

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• Every moment is a new beginning.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Positive, New Beginnings

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

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• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Love, Success, Education

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• All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

  Michael Ventura

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

  Michael Ventura (1994). “The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want to confront the ugly realities that their racism has created. In their eyes, when you attempt to address those realities from your perspective you become a racist.

  Runoko Rashidi

  Eye, Reality, White

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• To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.

  Dominique Venner

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "The Rebel: An Interview with Dominique Venner". www.counter-currents.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

  Clive James

  Movie, Effort, Hollywood

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Life, Reality, Political

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• The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, Clever, Stupid

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

  Mark Strand

  Life, Thinking, Pay

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• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

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