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Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart.... It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
July 11, 1926
Died:
August 15, 2022
(aged 96)
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