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Because Quotes (page 513)

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life... Barry Lopez
To be logical you have to dig up and face your own hidden motives and emotions, and of course they're hidden principally because you don't want to face them. So... um... it's easier to let your basement feelings run the upper storeys, so to speak, and the result is quarrels, love, opinions, anorexia, philanthropy... almost anything you can think of. I just like to know what's going on down there, to pick out why I truly want to do things, that's all. Then I can do them, or not. Whichever. Dick Francis
If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule. Laurell K. Hamilton
Neil Gaiman quote: "We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise,..."
We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. Neil Gaiman
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles..."
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? Friedrich Nietzsche
If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination. C. S. Lewis
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege. E. L. Doctorow
But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past. Alexander Dumas
C. S. Lewis quote: "He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."
He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees. C. S. Lewis
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself. Augusten Burroughs
Andy Warhol quote: "I never fall apart, because I never fall together."
I never fall apart, because I never fall together. Andy Warhol
She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit... Ken Kesey
Lies About Love. We are all liars, because. The truth of yesterdaybecomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed valueinstead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud. David Herbert Lawrence
I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window. Nicholas Sparks
Thomas Jefferson quote: "We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments..."
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. Thomas Jefferson

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