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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still…
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But the past is long, and the future is short.
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited…
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this…
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I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined,…
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is…
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an…
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
— Thomas Browne
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that…
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We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
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I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills.…
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,…
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
— Tertullian
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We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
— Jerome Bruner
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's…
— Italo Calvino
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's…
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We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
— Antal Szerb
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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against…
— Tupac Shakur
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