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21 " He only hoped to live, and lived on guarded hope. "
― Dean Koontz , Velocity
22 " Maybe to his nemesis, the world was a stage, reality was a fraud, and all was artifice. How "
23 " picking a lock isn’t as easy as it appears to be in movies. Neither is seducing a woman or killing a man, or anything else. "
24 " The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility…. "
25 " He was in the tides now, but not by choice. Events had thrown him in deep, swift water. The weight of twenty years of guarded emotions, of studied avoidance, of defensive reclusiveness, encumbered him. Now he was trying to learn to swim again, but a riptide seemed to be sweeping him farther from any community, toward greater isolation. "
26 " Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. "