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“With all this talk about taking my life, why have I never attempted it? Answer: I have an overwhelming desire to live.”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
“...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady's perfume in his jailbird's suit. And I'm left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.”
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“Once you have faced what could kill you, there's no going back.”
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
― Snow Falling on Cedars
― Snow Falling on Cedars
“The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.”
― The Gift of the Magi
― The Gift of the Magi
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