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• Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Believe, Able

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• So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Character, Men, Light

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• there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Peaceful, Zombie

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• I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Guilty, Feels

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Mom, Dad, Little Sister

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.

  George MacDonald

  People, Giving, Preparation

  George MacDonald (1880). “Cheerful Words”

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• Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Discipline, Mind, Energy

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• In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Sweet, Spring

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• There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ocean, Drowning, Should

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Parent, Wish, Helping

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• I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Suicide, Way, Kim

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• I just want the pain to end.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Pain, Ends

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• I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Gone, Reason, Remembered

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• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering

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• I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

  Jenny Downham

  Lonely, Home, Funeral

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Soul, Wish, Body

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• I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love You, Stories, Persons

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• Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.

  Kim Harrison

  Sorry, Eye, Trying

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• Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

  Marian Keyes

  Love You, World, Matter

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• After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Army, Two, Mind

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Something Beautiful, Bits

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, Knowing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

  John Green

  Loneliness, Waiting, Nervousness

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.295, A&C Black

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• I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.

  William T. Vollmann

  Real, Nice, Reading

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