"The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken."
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"For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end."
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"Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it."
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"I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing."
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"When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects."
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"And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things."
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"Why do we want to kill all the broken people?"
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"The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic."
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"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
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"You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah"
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"My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one."
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"Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing."
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"And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down."
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
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"A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life."
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"Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd."
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"Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved."
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"Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful."
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"There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come."
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"Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy."
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