"Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too."

-- Charles Baxter

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“All art is political, all art is a martial one.”
“One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.”
“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. xlvii, 1930.
“There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray.”
“My dowry is thirty-five. A year.â€ His brows climbed. â€œYouâ€™re joking.â€ â€œI would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years youâ€™re at a profit.â€ â€œHow I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.â€ â€œI can forge signatures as well.â€ â€œSplendid. Exactly the bride Iâ€™ve been hoping for.”
“Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.125, Hot Key Books
“Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.”
“I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.”

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