"The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it"

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Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

Louis de Bernieres

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“It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.”
“Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.”

Source : Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.144, Vintage
“Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.”
“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.”
“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that youâ€™re not perfect nothing is and no one is â€” and thatâ€™s OK.”

Source : Katie Couric's Commencement Address at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2007.
“An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.”
“Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.”
“Pursue truth and people will be true to you.”

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