Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

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Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder. —Salma Hayek

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ― Søren Kierkegaard

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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

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The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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