"You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going"
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"It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war."
"She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken."
"The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics."
"I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken."
"He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it."
"While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy."
"When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness."
"An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!"
"The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening."
"We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past."
"Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken."
"So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything."
"The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up."
"Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just."
"Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost."
"How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?"
"I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken."
"That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?"
"All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains."