"It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

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“Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.”
“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”
“Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!”
“I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1998). “Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero”, p.37, Regnery Publishing
“No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?”
“I'm not a bona fide human being.”
“From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for...”

Source : "Anarchism and Crime" by Joseph Labadie, 1932.
“As actors, you become an expert at starting over.”

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