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• We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stars, Light, Flames

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• To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, Mean, Fighting

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Moving On, Dream

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “The trumpet of conscience”, Harpercollins

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• Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Religious, Forgiving

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

  Emmanuel Levinas

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• For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intuition, Language, Communicate

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

  Ken Kesey

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.107, Hamilton Books

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• Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

  Martin Luther

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Principles, Needs

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her.

  Johnny Cash

  Pain, Real, Home

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• In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

  Stephen King

  Problem, Prison, Plenty

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Strength, Hate, Greatness

  "A New Slant on Life". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1965.

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• This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Mean, Laughing, World

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• I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Arguing, Hercule Poirot

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Strong, Ordinary, Absence

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• From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Giving Up, Heart, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

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• We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine.

  Susan Fletcher

  Mistake, Passion, Loss

  Susan Fletcher (2007). “Oystercatchers”, HarperCollins UK

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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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• The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Short Life, Greatness

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• To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Insane, Might, Helping

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Hero, Epic, Fire

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• When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Mistake, Believe

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

  Tasha Tudor

  Life, Beautiful, Appreciation

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