"Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."
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"Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it."
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"I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita."
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"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever."
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"It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma."
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"Do it for joy and you can do it forever"
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"Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come."
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"Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever."
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"I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something."
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"All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever."
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"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God."
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"but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"
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"If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things."
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"It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever."
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"Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever."
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"It felt like a small forever."
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"I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."
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"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
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"The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists."
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"Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive."
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