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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Find Past Present Forecast
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Who Speaks Instincts Man
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Despair Sun Firmament
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Pity Mother Name Implies
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Contents Bookcase History Ancestral
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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

People Love She Drowned
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
Book Good Read Great
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Feel Lending Book Fathers
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death.

Love Truth Beauty Wisdom
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Moment Book Lent Begin
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome Poem Service City
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Friends Stop Frank Useful
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We Tourists History Irony
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Tension Yes No Can
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Time Nothing Children Obedience
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Like Book Slowly Read
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Something Real People Stage
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Age Given Letter-writing Important
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Years Using Role Sex-object
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The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce World Tragedy Necessarily
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Public institutions represent our commonwealth and those in positions of authority in them do so in trust. Hence it must be treated as such.

Public institutions Represent Our commonwealth In positions
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I am also hopeful that death during childbirth will be a thing of the past, and our children will no longer have to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases or other common ailments.

Hopeful Death During childbirth A thing
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Patient safety is paramount in all health care settings and should not be compromised.

Patient safety Paramount Health care Settings
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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

We dream Give ourselves Hope Never change
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Can't change Your fate Your attitude
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Chance First step You take Luck
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Must teach My daughter Same lesson Lose
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

Hate The result Wounded love
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

I love Am loved Freely Nothing expected
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Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Much happiness Always overflowed Into tears Sorrow
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

My mother Not believe Be anything Be me
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

You think Missing something Never had
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Think Too much You believe More choices
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How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

The world Chaos Many coincidences Similarities
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Recognize evil Other people I have Become evil
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Distorted form Inverse logic Hopes Come true
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Have pride Each day Not arrogance Born with
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Already believe Suddenly stop Loyal friend
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Happiness lies A cave Country In love
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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Your tears Wash away Your sorrows Feed someone
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With hope, a mind is always free.

With hope Mind Always free
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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Are living A word Everything Society
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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Good Speak well Better The truth
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If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

Don't have The possibility Listening Music
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I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

Always known Was born Sing A child
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

Always been Science Help man I play
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