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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
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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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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate it befalls us at our invitation.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
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