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The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.
I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn
I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.
I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.