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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
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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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