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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for… — Stephen King
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed… — Octave Mirbeau
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to… — Pope John Paul II
It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He… — James M. Barrie
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of… — Edward Abbey
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are… — Cesare Pavese
But what Freud showed usâ€¦ was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in… — Jacques Lacan
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that… — Paul Valery
There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall. — Jim Crace
Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an… — Sherman Alexie
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead,… — Kurt Vonnegut
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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