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Providence Quote by Juan Rulfo

“We live in a region where everything is given to us, thanks to Providence, but where everything is bitter.” quote by Juan Rulfo — Download Open image

““We live in a region where everything is given to us, thanks to Providence, but where everything is bitter.””

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“You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.”

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“What's taking you so long in the privy, son?" "Nothing, mama." "If you stay in there much longer, a snake will come and bite you" "Yes, mama." I was thinking of you, Susana of the green hills. Of when we used to fly kites in the windy season. We could hear the sounds of life from the town below; we…

“I am lying in the same bed where my mother died so long ago; on the same mattress, beneath the same black wool coverlet she wrapped us in to sleep. I slept beside her, her little girl, in the special place she made for me in her arms. I think I can still feel the calm rhythm of her breathing;…

“Vivimos rompiendo nuestro mundo a cada rato...”

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“Every morning at dawn the village trembles with the rumbling of the wagons. They come in from everywhere, loaded with saltpeter, with corn, with hay. The wheels creak and creak, rattling the windows and waking up the village. That's the hour when the ovens are opened and the air smells of new-baked bread.Suddenly it thunders, perhaps, and the rain falls.…

No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when…

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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

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Because to write, one must truly suffer.

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There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in…

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Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

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There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the…

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God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born…

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life

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“The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at…

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

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Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual…

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Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a…

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I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to…

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