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"Passion. It lies in all of us, sleeping, waiting. And though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all and we obey. What other choice do we have? It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace, but we would be hollow: empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead."

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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

Rilke, Rainer Maria on relationship
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"Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation."

Kierkegaard, Søren on deliberation
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

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"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude."

Kierkegaard, Søren on irony
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"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."

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I'm female from the United States and made my book on 26th February 2009.

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I enjoy tea and mahjong. Good literature is a bonus.

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