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For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Christopher Pike

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What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
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When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.
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Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.
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I don't want to die! Then you should never been born.
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Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
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All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.
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In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
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A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
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It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.
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He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
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My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.
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I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't... and who lives, and who dies.
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There is no time for grief there never is.
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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
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Love me...I am not evil.
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We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.
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They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.
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One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.
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True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
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Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
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