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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier,… — John Knowles
The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.… — Marilynne Robinson
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that… — Etgar Keret
What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own… — Libba Bray
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. — Mark Haddon
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half… — William Saroyan
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for… — John F. Kennedy
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes… — Michel Faber
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the… — Jodi Picoult
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that… — William Goldman
I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored! — Greta Garbo
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. — Unknown Author
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. — Neale Donald Walsch
[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

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