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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
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That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
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These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.
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Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.
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