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21 " But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself! "
― Anne Rice , Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles, #12)
22 " All around us were happy people excited to be going to Atalantaya, many for the first time, and the officials in charge seemed excited for us as well. It was rather like being in a group today that is visiting the cities of Jerusalem or Rome for the first time. "
23 " But what creature in the world doesn't want to be loved for itself? "
24 " Rhosh, remember the being’s skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one’s skin, and the being’s hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head. "
25 " He says things like the orchestra is generating a soul, a collective soul, an entity. I ask him what that means. He says consciousness generates soul. "
26 " Nothing vanishes quite like pain—when pain does vanish, that is. Because most of the time pain never does. "
27 " Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul. "
28 " It’s the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word. "
29 " Every spellbinder has a signature,” I said. “Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can’t make it happen to me after that.” I "
30 " He walks the earth with the power to destroy it. But then so does the human race. And "
31 " what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good—that hope will be realized through love. "
32 " That is one of the worst aspects of evil, that it always involves the death of possible good, always proceeds from the destruction of something that might have been so much better. "
33 " all you have to lose in death, no matter how long you’ve lived, is the present moment in which you die. "
34 " But what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And "
35 " Andrássy Út "