"What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude."
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"Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end"
"After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all."
"In the end, we know God as unknown."
"All comes out even at the end of the day."
"In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end."
"The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes"
"I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end."
"where the world ends is where you must begin"
"At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work."
"There is no end to the power a man can obtain."
"They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod."
"As I have always found, and often am forced to remember, to all things there is a beginning and an end."
"Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."
"We must end war before war ends us."
"I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution."
"Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone.""
"Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object."
"We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life."
"And where love ends, hate begins"