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The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return. — Seth Grahame-Smith
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.… — Marquis de Sade
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. — Milan Kundera
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieveâ€”like the soulâ€™s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy… — Laini Taylor
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all… — Antonio Machado
Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved… — Ray Bradbury
Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground.… — Colum McCann
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
No matter what happens, we'll always be together, always find a way to locate each other. No matter which guise my soul decides to wear,… — Alyson Noel
They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep… — Kamila Shamsie
I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to… — Georgette Heyer
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. — Jonathan Safran Foer
It is only the dead who do not return. — Alexandre Dumas
Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then… — Diana Wynne Jones
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role… — Haruki Murakami
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return… — Henry David Thoreau
Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to â€˜repayâ€™ his debt, â€˜his own consciousnessâ€™ of the fact â€˜that he is himself the very substanceâ€™ of debt,… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture… — Darren Shan
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply canâ€™t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting… — Anne Frank

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