“The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.”
“In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.”
Source: You Shall See His Glory in the Morning!
“You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.”
Source: End of Story
“I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.”
“They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.”
“To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.”
“What is not in nature can never be true.”
Source: The Complete Romances of Voltaire
“What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.”
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“It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.”
“Happiness is not the portion of man.”
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