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1 " There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. "
― Dean Koontz , Velocity
2 " What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end. "
3 " A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. "
4 " Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth. "
5 " Art is the only answer to chaos and the void. "
6 " Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated. "
7 " He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts. "
8 " Are you prepared for the first wound? "
9 " Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering. "
10 " Inaction counted as a choice. "
11 " They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get. "
12 " الألم نعمة، فالبشرية من دون ألم، لا تعرف الخوف أو الشفقة، فمن دون خوف، لا يمكن أن يكون هناك تواضع، ويصبح كل إنسان وحشا، فرؤية الألم عند الآخرين يولِّد فينا الشّفقة، وفي شفقنا تكمن إنسانيتنا، خلاصنا. "
13 " He had the raw, rough voice of one who had marinated his larynx in whiskey and slow-cooked it in years of cigarette smoke. "
14 " GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT, "
15 " THREE BUTTERFLIES, AERIAL GEISHAS, DANCED out of the sunshine, into the porch shadows. Their silken kimonos flaring and folding and flaring in graceful swirls of color, as bashful as faces hidden behind the pleats of hand-painted fans, they fled, quick, into the brightness from which they had come. "
16 " May the judgment not be too heavy upon us. "
17 " Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still. "
18 " Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose. "
19 " Besides, some books contained disturbing ideas. They started you thinking about things you wanted to forget, and though your thoughts became intolerable, you could not put them to rest. The "
20 " When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived. "
