"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."

-- Joseph Joubert

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“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany”
“I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.”
“Be thine own privy counsellor.”
“I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
“Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.”

Source : Wendy Doniger (1988). “Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism”, p.135, Manchester University Press
“I feel that I am a good actor.”
“What man can imagine he may one day achieve.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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