That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man
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the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.Khalil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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