"It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do."
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"That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter."
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"But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience."
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"Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens."
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"The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue."
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"Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him."
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"Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God."
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"Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it."
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"I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life."
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"This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom."
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"I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures."
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"I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself."
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"This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates."
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"He that goeth farre hath many encounters."
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"I'm in favor of sexual encounters."
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"Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals."
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"Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision."
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"Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it."
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"At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice."
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"The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable."
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