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A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

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But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, a...more

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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

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America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade h...more

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What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could...more

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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they ...more

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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their ...more

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When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

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He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wron...more

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A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to...more

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I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his grand designs without ever knowing that my path a...more

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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

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When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabricati...more

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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

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The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.