"Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him? In this way you will achieve two things; you will heal yourself and your neighbor with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. `Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.""

-- John Climacus

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“I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

Source : Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”
“I had a lot of friends that were extremely hedonistic, extremely debauched, swapping partners etc.”
“I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.”
“All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.”
“Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.”

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