"Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation."
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"we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living."
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"Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream."
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"They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them."
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"You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?"
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"It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us."
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"Death frees from the fear of dying"
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"She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized."
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"I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen"
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"It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights."
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"Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did."
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"when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble."
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"If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily."
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"He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe."
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"Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend."
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"she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence."
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"You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?"
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"If you really want to dream, be fully awake."
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"Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine."
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"Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated"
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