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You’re wasting your life being involved with me.” “I’m not wasting anything.” “But I might never recover. Will you wait for me forever? Can you wait 10 years, 20 years?” “You’re letting yourself be scared by too many things,” I said. “The dark, bad dreams, the power of the dead. You have to forget them. I’m sure you’ll get well if you do.” “If I can,” said Naoko, shaking her head. “If you can get out of this place, will you live with me?” I asked. “Then I can protect you from the dark and... Haruki Murakami
Corrie Ten Boom quote: "You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would..."
You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. Corrie Ten Boom
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad..."
Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives. Robert Louis Stevenson
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair. Soren Kierkegaard
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him. Kurt Vonnegut
One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ...The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful.... L. Ron Hubbard
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died. Charles Bukowski
For all those whose careshave been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. Edward Kennedy
We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must. Doug Coupland
How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. Tom Robbins
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. Charles Dickens
Italo Svevo quote: "It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great,..."
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. Italo Svevo
There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck like a child, an old man sat eating, drips of gravy drbibbling gravy from him lips. His eyes were bloodshot and he had a little pigtail tied up with a black ribbon. This was the Marquis' father-in-law... he had led a... Read more tumultuous life of debauchery and duelling, of wagers made and women abducted, had squandered his fortune and terrified his whole... Gustave Flaubert
William Shakespeare quote: "O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!"
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil! William Shakespeare
Gerald Durrell quote: "They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown..."
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. Gerald Durrell

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