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“If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured — somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!”
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“Waste not, want not.”
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“No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.”
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“We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.”
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“God's been going deaf. ... Here God used to raineth bread from clouds, smite the Phillipines, sling fire down on red-light districts where people got stabbed. He even appeared in person every once in a while. God used to pay attention, is what I'm saying.”
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“A man ... is so in the way in the house!”
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“Secrets were always like that. They put a film between you and the rest of the world, so that you could see everyone else, but no one could see the whole of you.”
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“The difference between being grief-stricken and grieving is the difference between remaining a passive victim and actively making use of a situation.”