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“At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.”
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“I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.”
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“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.”
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“I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.”
Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan
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“Unless you are a part of someone's life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.”
Source : Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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“I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.”
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“Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.”
Source : "DNC head: GOP could spark 'chaos'" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. July 27, 2011.
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“So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.”