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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
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“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
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“You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
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