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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Bombs Horse Littles
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much

Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

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