Her beauty is laced in her strength and interwoven through her flaws. She embodies perfection.


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It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.” “Well, that is al...
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The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
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[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned...
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Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to ...
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You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those ...
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The bomb lives only as it is falling.
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