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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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Sometimes
Men
Bewildered
Hug
Calling
Highest
Simply
Stand

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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
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..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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