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"I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it... AIMEE CARTER CARL JUNG CARL GUSTAV JUNG C.G. JUNG FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY GILLIAN FLYNN MARK HADDON Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f... JAMES BURTSCHAELL W. H. AUDEN GILLIAN FLYNN It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his... JANE HARVEY-BERRICK A stranger lies behind my eyes, AKASH MANDAL KURT VONNEGUT JR. For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by h... RACHEL HARTMAN I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about... PAULA JONES JAMES M. BARRIE JAMES M. BARRIE JAMES M. BARRIE JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Floyd says he's never ducked anyone and never will. If he will not fight me, he's going to have some... ZAB JUDAH VACLAV HAVEL VINCENT VAN GOGH If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide... PROVERB JOHN EDWARDS STEPHEN CHBOSKY GAUTAMA BUDDHA TAYLOR SWIFT Gagne taught me the changeup. I did not have confidence in it. Then he said, 'Throw that changeup.' ... GUILLERMO MOTA Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? / He that is of... BIBLE I'm not concerned about it. I'm a little angry about it because I know this kid is better that what ... OZZIE GUILLEN ALIA BHATT HENRY DAVID THOREAU CHARLES PEGUY MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only a... MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS He looked at her in bittersweet despair. “Sometimes, Kate, when I’m inside you and your arms are... SHELBY REED VINCENT VAN GOGH MAYA ANGELOU ADAM SMITH Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu... CHARLES BRADLAUGH GASTON LEROUX As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ... TODD BURPO ROLAND BARTHES That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he s... LUKAS FOSS PATRICK NESS RACHEL VINCENT Sometimes when I can no longer endure the strain, I beg him to tell me what is wrong with me and hel... NATSUME SōSEKI BRIAN ENO JESSICA KHOURY The truth is that none of us is wise enough to know our best future. We do not have the vision to se... JON MORRISON RALPH WALDO EMERSON BETH REVIS FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY CECELIA AHERN JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but h... CHRISTINA L. BARR Violet makes me better,” I tell him, confidence in my tone. He smirks. “I can see that. I can se... K. WEBSTER Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI JOHN PAUL II TACITUS PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS I'd call him and say, 'I don't know how to act this scene,' and he would tell me to fax it to him, .... FELICITY HUFFMAN This was not an election, this was a farce, this was a scandal. Mubarak wants me to shut up. He does... AYMAN NOUR How do I know that? He told me that. He said to me: 'You believe in peace, I don't believe we can ha... YOSSI BEILIN CHARLES PEGUY CHARLES PEGUY ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the de... TIMOTHY J. KELLER GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING CYNTHIA HAND BARBARA CARTLAND BARBARA CARTLAND SOCRATES ADRIANA LIMA MARY OLIVER You have no idea of what you are doing to me,” he warned.AMANDA QUICK I never know what people want to hear when they say that stuff. And it’s not like anything about m... J.L. MERROW Christ is the eternal Son of God, and He is in His divine attributes the same yesterday and today an... WILLIAM HENRY FROST ARISTOTLE LEIGH BARDUGO Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 The truth is that every man is ... FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE HARRY S TRUMAN MAHATMA GANDHI BRENNAN MANNING
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Tell me a truth, Senna."
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are ... 
I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fi... 
You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? May... 
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I d... 
If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau... 
He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is 
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is... 
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is... 
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is... 
I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I... 
Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them eithe... 
And I don’t know, you’re at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encour... 
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"
Continuing a short series on forgiveness: Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all i... 
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha... 
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that ... 
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that... 
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that... 
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has... 
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The... 
[So does Edwards want to live at the Naval Observatory?] If asked, I am sure he would say yes, ... t... 
Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me? 
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think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memori... 
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as... 
He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars a... 
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where h... 
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He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ... 
Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably mu... 
You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma... 
I don’t want to love him—this would be so much simpler if I didn’t. But I do.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must... 
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f... 
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is love... 
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A woman should say: ''Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me ... 
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth 
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Percy wakes me (fourteen)
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If you think of something, do it.
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There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to lea... 
I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a dis... 
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or ev... 
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 
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The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ... 
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