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Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy Leo Tolstoy
Kate DiCamillo quote: "In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us..."
In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community. Kate DiCamillo
Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that! Booth Tarkington
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from..."
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. Henry David Thoreau
Paulo Coelho quote: "In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our..."
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. Paulo Coelho
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment,..."
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. Charles Baudelaire
Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. Carl Sagan
but those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. Rainer Maria Rilke
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. Milan Kundera
One reason to keep going is that the country was given to us as a sacred charge. It is, as Stephen Vincent Benet says in 'the Devil and Daniel Webster,' not the only place that created free man- but... Read More its a place that demands that we decide what to do with out freedom. You can only punish yourself, That's the existential view. I don't think there's any reward beyond participating, beyond being here. And the antithesis of reward is punishment, and the only punishment that can come... Mort Sahl
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. F. Scott Fitzgerald
This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell, Alice Hoffman
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. Mario Puzo
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable Harry S. Truman
George Eliot quote: "If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should..."
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. George Eliot

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