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• If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Elements, Redemption, World

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• Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lost Love, Love Is, Hatred

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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Thinking, People

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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• Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Water, Ears

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• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Spiritual, Self, Alive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Strong, Wall

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• Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.

  Julian Barnes

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

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• Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Grandfather, Would Be

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• Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.

  Mortimer Adler

  Giving, Drug, Mind

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• The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Feelings, Promise

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Class, Facts, Impossible

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.77, Publishdrive

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• Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

  Douglas Coupland

  Age, Sincerity, Certain

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth, Believe, Being True

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

  Don Marquis

  Forever, Instant

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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• Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

  David McCullough

  Country, Patriotic, Patriotism

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Nov 12, 2012

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• I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Poison, Littles, Fantasy

  "The Crying of Lot 49". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1966.

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• Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Alive, Ability

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Burns: A Kate Daniels Novel: 2”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

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• The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Healing, Medicine, Technique

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Said, Explanation, Asks

  Agatha Christie (1999). “Murder on the Orient Express”, Im-Press

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• But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Blood, Leaving, Despair

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