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“All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future--a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life--is gone. [p. 149]”
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“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.”
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“So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.”
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“Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.”
Source : Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc
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“I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.”
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“She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.”
Source : Mark Strand (2012). “Almost Invisible: Poems”, p.38, Knopf
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“No mother should lose her child.”
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“Every artist was first an amateur.”