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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

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