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[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through… — Audre Lorde
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. — Gregory David Roberts
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. — Banksy
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible---… — Charles Bukowski
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear… — Viktor E. Frankl
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays. — C.S. Lewis
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1,… — William Shakespeare
Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met? — C.S. Lewis
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do… — D. H. Lawrence
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not… — Ludwig Borne
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. — Rudyard Kipling
What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could… — P.G. Wodehouse
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberishâ€”a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart… — Hunter S. Thompson
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from… — Ayn Rand
I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember. — Tim O'Brien
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the… — David Livingstone

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