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The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret,
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Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.
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I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.
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It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.
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Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
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Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
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Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.
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If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches
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Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.
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Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.
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Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
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You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent
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There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.
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God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.
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All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.
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If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
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I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.
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Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
April 12, 1969
(age 55)
Bio:
Andrew Davidson is a Canadian novelist. He has a B.A. in English literature from the University of British Columbia, and worked as a teacher in Japan before returning to Canada.
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