You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
J. K. ROWLINGDestiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
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Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
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Depression is very different.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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