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“Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.” quote by Tosca Lee — Download Open image

““Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.””

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“In the beginning there was God...but for me there was Adam.”

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God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

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“I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best…

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“Go away. Go live out your gnat's existence." "But we're not done!" Her eyes lolled back to me. "Yes, we are." "But--I don't know how it ends!" And now I remembered something else. "Or what it has to do with me - you said this story was ultimately about me. What does this have to do with me?" "What does…

“Suffice it to say, we were horrified by the entire concept of dying, even if we weren't the ones with the death sentence.”

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“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

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“So as I said, the world was mutating," she said, prick, prick, pricking at the cloth, looking up at me once to make sure, I assume, I was listening. "From the earth sprung hateful and ugly things that flourished amid all that was lush and good. There would be no more accord among the animals now; they would follow a…

“Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your…

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And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might…

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“She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested." I waited. She waited. I raised my brows. "And?" Her mouth curved into a…

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“Sweat trickled down my sides inside my sweater. "Why? Why did you do this?" "Because this is your life, Clay: fleeting, ephemeral, and insignificant…

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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Remember that your natural state is joy.

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“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care…

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Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Rudyard Kipling

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our…

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so delicate that it must be nourished and cared for that it might be fulfilled. Alien to the world, it had to live where it could not be at home; avid for tenderness and quiet, it had…

“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf…

Silvana de Mari

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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the…

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“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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