"When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock."

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Source : Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117

Henry Kirke White

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“I never had a desire to hurt anybody.”
“I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.”

Source : Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”
“Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.”
“We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.”
“Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didnâ€™t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, â€œgood book,â€ as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.61, Macmillan
“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
“I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.”
“I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.”

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