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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
    tags: insanity, mental-illness, sickness, thoughts
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: communication, life
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    Patrick Henry
    “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: freedom, liberty, revolution, slavery
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    Patrick Henry
    “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: politics
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    Patrick Henry
    “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: brutus, caesar, charles-the-first, cromwell, george-the-third, julius-caesar, oliver-cromwell, treason
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    Patrick Henry
    “For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: courage, freedom, honesty, revolution, self-examination, truth
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    Patrick Henry
    “The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: morality, right-and-wrong, sin
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    Patrick Henry
    “Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: chance, country, liberty, rights, rulers
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    Patrick Henry
    “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
    ― Patrick Henry
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    Patrick Henry
    “I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
    ― Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
    tags: compassion, empathy, kindness, suffering, understanding-others
    1171 likes

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    Gertrude Stein
    “Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: humour
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    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    “If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
    ― Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    Gertrude Stein
    “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    284 likes



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