"I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me"
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"A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing."
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"You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life."
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"I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European Union down unless there are huge reforms from within to democratize, to give more power to the regions, etc. If this doesn't happen, the European Union will fall."
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"Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one.""
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"It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities."
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"Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back."
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"For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us: you're in my blood, this room, Spring itself is filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us, we vanish within him and around him."
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"In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die."
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"He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work."
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"Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge."
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"If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart."
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"The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions."
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"What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder."
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"It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous."
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"When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts."
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"Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game... And if it's a game, then you need to win."
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"Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours."
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"Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around."
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"No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity"
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