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Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.
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The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.
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My dowry is thirty-five. A year.†His brows climbed. “You’re joking.†“I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.†“How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.†“I can forge signatures as well.†“Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.
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There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
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The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.
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A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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After all, it's me that needs to change, not my circumstances.
