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“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.”
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“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
Source : Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.
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“There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.”
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“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.”
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“(The Other side of the Story)"The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass".”
Source : "The other side of the story". Book by Marian Keyes, 2004.
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“The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.”
Source : Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.13, Faber & Faber
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“One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.”