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From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
- Gautama Buddha
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
- Victor Hugo
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
- Nicholas Sparks
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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