Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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