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Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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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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She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.
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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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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
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Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
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