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• But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.

  Albert Camus

  Nice, Party, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.33, Vintage

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• And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Choices, Serenity

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• With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Heart, Eye, Years

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.94, Random House

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• Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Legends, Spare Time

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• Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
  To-day the glint of green is there;
  Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
  I know no thing so wondrous fair,
  No miracle so strangely rare.
  I wonder what will next be there!

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Spring, Yesterday, Miracle

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• There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will enable us to experience the grace of God which is being showered on us all the time. Therefore, whatever spare time you get, use it to seek God. If you create peace in your own heart by doing sadhana, then that will have a positive effect on your family, your work and so on. The peace and love of God will overflow out of your heart and encourage others to move on the right path.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Moving, Heart, Cutting

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• Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Life Is Too Short, Passion, Evil

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• A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Littles, Duncan, Performing

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• We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Mean, Stories, Earth

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Military, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.

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• Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

  Samuel I. Prime

  Father, House, Bread

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 341, 1895.

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• I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

  David Levithan

  People, Going Away, Resentment

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.77, Egmont UK

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• I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

  Jessica Sorensen

  Wall, Writing, Heart

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• Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

  Mitch Albom

  Expression, Long, Mind

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Evil, Imagination, Soul

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Humility, Thinking

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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Pain, Justice, Might

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.317, Dell

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• Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives in a city, or shops in a supermarket, or watches TV, or reads a newspaper, or drives a car, or eats frozen pizzas. A nice life, possibly, with a huge slice of luck and a little spare cash. And maybe even a good life if... Well, let's not go into all that. But rich and beautiful lives seem to be a discontinued line.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Good Life, Nice

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• I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Woods, Reason

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Laughter, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

  Karen White

  Daughter, Book, Writing

  Karen White (2009). “The Lost Hours”, p.24, Penguin

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• Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

  Willard Gaylin

  Men, Egalitarianism, Differences

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• When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Suicidal, Thinking

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.93, Vintage

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• Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

  John Calvin

  Wise, Men, Simplicity

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