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• I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, Competition, Suffering

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

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• The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

  Erwin McManus

  Self, Community, Healthy

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• The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

  Michelle Sagara

  Skins, Fit, Mask

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• you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, Solitude

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• My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Football, Religious, Monday

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• I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Memories, Mistake, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.51, Macmillan

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• In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

  Mary Karr

  Prayer, Speech, Sacred

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• And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Mouths, Body

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

  Carson McCullers

  Caring, Care

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.310, Library of America

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• I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Self, Expression

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Long, People

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Wife, Ems

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Men, Way

  Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.221, Penguin

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• Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca

  Karen Armstrong

  Loyalty, Father, Mecca

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• The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Grief, Community, Sorrow

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Men, Cereal

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.228, Dell

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• Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

  Andrew Vachss

  Enemy, Spirit, Vulnerable

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• Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

  Norman Maclean

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heaven, Legends, Crime

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind". www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sometimes, Clean, Hissing

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Butterfly, Swimming

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• Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Simple, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.251, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

  William Gibson

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.92, Penguin

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• We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Jesus, Pain, Thinking

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