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Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head


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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.



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The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.


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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.



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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.



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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?



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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.




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