Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
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