To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

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Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

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There is no forgiveness in nature.

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Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

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It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

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When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

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