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"We are all, in some way, exiles from ourselves."
"The dead are always with us, and we are always with them."
"The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and in our minds and in the end, they're all we've got."
"The dead are more alive than we are, because they are complete."
"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. Ours are different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, and the skin on his chest was so thin that you could see the ribs pressing out against it.
"We are all haunted by the past, and the past is always present."
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
We are all prisoners of our own memories.
The past is a shadow that follows us, a ghost that haunts us.
The world is full of signs and wonders, but we are blind to them.
We are all ghosts of ourselves, haunting the places we once lived.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we."
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
