"We love being in love, that's the truth on't."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.”
“Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.”
“I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.”
“Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')”
“Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.”

Source : Andrew Pyper (2014). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.”
“You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.”

Source : Lissa Rankin (2015). “The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose”, p.117, Rodale
“God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.”

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