“ Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. ”
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“ You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are. ”
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“ You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable. ”
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“ Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice. ”
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“ This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours. ”
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“ In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. ”
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“ With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. ”
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“ I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. ”
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“ Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ”
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“ When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. ”
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“ A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone. ”
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“ What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody. ”
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“ America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be openminded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth. ”
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“ But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the lowgravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom. ”
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“ Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. ”
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“ I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. ”
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“ The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. ”
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“ Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind. ”
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“ someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up ”
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“ I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me goodbye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out. ”
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“ It was not right, thought Han Feitzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestoroftheheart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone. ”
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“ I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. ”
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“ Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. ”
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“ Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. ”
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“ It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. ”
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“ Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. ”
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“ I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for. ”
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“ Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts. ”
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