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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Absence Doctrine Tradition
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People

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