The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. ― Scott Westerfield

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sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ― John Henry Newman

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You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince ― E.L. James

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. ― Anna Akhmatova

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.” ― Bertrand Russell

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Scars are not injuries. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.— China Miéville

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Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will. — Venus Williams

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. -Socrates

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