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“Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)”

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Patricia Briggs is an American author known for her works in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Born in 1965, she began publishing her works in 1993. Briggs' novels are celebrated for their complex characters and engaging plots. more

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”

“To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.”

Dies Victim Injustice Proof Faith In God Convicts

Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

“life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.”

Different Beautiful Lying Language Different Languages Beautiful Lies

Book:In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems

Source: In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

Ifs Fear Nothingness Life Or Death

Book:Flowers for Algernon: One Act

Source: Flowers for Algernon: One Act

“It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”

People Trying Normal Add Inevitable Unpredictable Normalcy Predictability

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Some things were beyond understanding.”

Understanding

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.." - by the river piedra i sat down and wept”

Knows Firsts Important Might Fate Strange Married Rivers Down And Sat First Love

Author:Paulo Coelho

“It is good to put your life in other people's hands.”

People Hands

Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

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