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“Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist, was born on December 11, 1918, and died on August 3, 2008. He is renowned for his works that profoundly exposed the dark side of the Soviet political system and is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. more

“The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.”

May Made Soul Numbers Forever Impossible One Thing Goes On Constant Conclusion Destroyed Divides Irrational Incapable Equations Fractions Indivisible Irrational Numbers

Author:Joe Hill

“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”

Men Enough Shows Sin Sense Of Humor Absurdity

Author:Samuel Butler

“The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say I don't think something that calls itself a 'world eater' is a good thing.”

Thinking World Way Use Good Things Worms Limbs Gaia

Author:Michael Grant

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

Men World Made Devil Creator

Author:Joe Hill

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers.”

Love Running Strange Lovers Folly You Like It Strangeness Touchstones True Lovers Capers

Author:William Shakespeare

“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”

World Beautiful Broken Beautiful Things Fallen Angels City Of Fallen Angels Jocelyn Fray

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”

World Imagination Destiny Magic Wall Caught Curse Fallen Caught Up Simon Lewis Illusory Fallen Angels City Of Fallen Angels

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”

Lost Imagine Thrown Usual Imagine That Ruts Epic Poems

Book:War and Peace: plus free audiobook

Source: War and Peace: plus free audiobook

“Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!”

Pleasure Determination Majority Bored Spite Good Times Seekers Having A Good Time Grim

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

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