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• So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Hands, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

  Alberto Manguel

  Writing, Library, Digestion

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.169, Vintage Canada

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• We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

  Alberto Manguel

  Technology, Vocabulary, Years

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.214, Vintage Canada

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• God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving Up, Giving, Hinder

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• Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Bears, Teach

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• Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

  Richard Wright

  World, Environment, Hungry

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

  Robert Frost

  Play, Heaven, Needs

  Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem (1992). “Robert Frost: Seasons”, Mjf Books

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• I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Believe, Long, Shining

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Sick, Insanity

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• The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

  C. S. Lewis

  Caring, Men, Two

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

  Frederick Buechner

  Journey, Scare, Half

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

  Jan Karon

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• To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Philosophy, Love Is, Preparation

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.

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• Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

  Thomas Hardy

  Three, Quarters, Fourth Quarter

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.146, Xist Publishing

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• I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Writing, Character

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.10, Penguin

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

  John Piper

  Passion, Names, People

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

  Chaim Potok

  Heaven, Life Is

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• It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art

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• Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

  Shannon Hale

  Home, Boys, Laughing

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

  William Saroyan

  Running, Mean, Trying

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mean, Done, Spiteful

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• The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Facts, Quiet

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Religious, Heart, Pride

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Eugene Howard (1949). “David Brainerd: his life and diary”

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• Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

  Steven Moffat

  Angel, World, May

  "Fictional character:Reinette". "The Girl in the Fireplace", May 6, 2006.

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