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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

John Steinbeck

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer

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