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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
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“If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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