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[convents]

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

- Benjamin Franklin

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[convents]

In each of us is the capacity to decide what drives our actions. So what is it that makes some choose selflessness, the need to devote oneself to something greater while others know only self-interest, isolating themselves into worlds of their own making? Some seek love even if unrequited while others are driven by fear and betrayal. There are those who see their choices as dark proof of God's absence while others follow a path of noble destiny. But in the end -- good, evil, right or wrong; what we choose is never what we really need. For that is the ultimate cosmic joke; the real gift that God has left behind.

~ Heroes; Season 3: Episode 13

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"My mind tells me I will never understand God."
"And your heart?"
"Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift I have yet to receive."

~ Angels & Demons

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

~ Love Sonnet XVII - Pablo Neruda

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And the crazy part of it was that even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career - you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in.

~ Erica Jong

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Hortensio: Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrow.
Lucentio: 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.

~ The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare