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“The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.”

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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is a renowned Czech-French writer known for his profound psychological insights and unique narrative techniques. His works often explore themes of personal freedom, love, morality, and existentialism, with notable titles including 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and 'The Joke'. more

“Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. It is some dark sister traveling in sorrow's clothing. Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.”

Knows Men Believe Helping Turns Easy Dark Views Existence Imagine Terrible Sorrow Believe In God Clothings Terrible Things Unspeakable

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.”

Welcome Edinburgh

Author:Ian Rankin

“There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!”

Mind Made Turns Names Difficult Forget Cost Mere Delight Command Welcome Bridges Remembered Kirk

Book:Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Source: Star Trek: The Motion Picture

“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”

Ifs Hands Care Asks Sin Known Dying Pure Kissing Sick Lips Purity Pillow Brows

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

“she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day”

Breaths Breathe Grants Seconds Another Day

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.”

Men Way Humans Made States Law Life Is Human Beings Existence Taken Authority Unique Men And Women Dignity Infinite Filled Human Life Being Human Linked

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”

Ifs Giving Real Helping Purpose Alive Helping Others Get Up Live Your Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.”

Source: Desolation Angels

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