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That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.

Herman Melville

Character, Men, Gone

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.127, Velvet Element Books

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When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

Sri Chinmoy

Humility, Humble, Pride

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

Paul Celan

Air, Roots

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It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days. As a result, a great deal escapes us and we no longer understand our own actions. So it remains important and salutary to speak not only of the rational and easily understood, but also of enigmatic things: the irrational and the ambiguous. To speak both privately and publicly.

Mary Zimmerman

Dream, Giving, Important

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I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled. "Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other." "Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty." "For now, that will do." Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended. -Annabelle and Zacharel

Gena Showalter

Men, Want, Way

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And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.

John Boyne

Heart, Eight, Feet

"The Absolutist". Book by John Boyne, 2011.

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The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

Simone Weil

Men, Hands, Silence

Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Joseph Goebbels

Animal, Men, Beast

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

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Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

James A. Baldwin

May, Sometimes, Speak

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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

Marge Piercy

Mother, Memories, Husband

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The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

R. C. Sproul

Dignity, Crosses, Testimony

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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

A.J. Cronin

Country, War, Enemy

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I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]

Veronica Roth

Brother, War, Reflection

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IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

Rumi

Crazy, Ocean, Eye

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If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several decades until they're accidentally discovered by some guy on a journey to awaken his spirit at the Salinas Pueblo Missions, can I have your iMac?" I gaped at her. "You've really thought this out. "I love your iMac." "I love my iMac too, and you're not getting her." "But you'll be decomposing.

Darynda Jones

Journey, Guy, Desert

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Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

Delphine de Vigan

War, Eye, Blood

Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Joyce Carol Oates

Betrayal, Gone, Wounds

Joyce Carol Oates (2010). “Little Bird of Heaven”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

Catherynne M. Valente

Heart, White, Onions

Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

Jessica Valenti

Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

Pope Benedict XVI

Father, Silence, And Love

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If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity.

Sylvia Day

Littles, Sanity, Ifs

Sylvia Day (2012). “Seven Years to Sin”, p.144, Penguin UK

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The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus, Crazy, Blessed

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Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Charles Bukowski

Reality, California, Southern

Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours

Charles Bukowski

Love, Death, Drains

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Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

Anton Chekhov

Years, Law, Two

Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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