"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."

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Source : Gilbert Parker (1907). “The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago”, p.240, Library of Alexandria

Gilbert Parker

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“What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!”
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”

Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”
“Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.”
“So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.”
“Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.”
“It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.”

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