"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

-- Voltaire

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“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.”

Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.34, Psychology Press
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
“You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.”
“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.”

Source : Mattie J. T. Stepanek (2002). “Hope through heartsongs”, Hyperion Books
“The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.”
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.”
“We could do it, you know.”
“All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.”

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