We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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