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• When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Relationship, Communication

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• Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

  Alexander Pope

  Mean, Thinking, Pieces

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.19

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• With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Liars, Lying, Wrath

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• His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Dark, Golden Days

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• ...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

  Melody Beattie

  Meditation, Plans, Happens

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Being Single

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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• Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set in a gold promise ring, three small diamonds glittered. One for you, one for me, one for us, he said sweetly. I love you.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Hands, Brave

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

  Harold B. Lee

  Honesty, War, Character

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• Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

  Jim Wallis

  Believe, Evidence

  Jim Wallis (1982). “Waging peace: a handbook for the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons”, Harpercollins

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• That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Clouds, Floating

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Mother, Children

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• In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Fate, Play

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• Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

  Paul Celan

  Loss, Language, Secure

  Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.34, Psychology Press

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• I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follow the pen that is guiding and supporting me.

  Muriel Barbery

  Teaching, Giving, Joy

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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• Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

  Milan Kundera

  Silence, Comfort, Stories

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Memories, Mistake, Leaving

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books

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• I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

  William Styron

  Hands, Honor, Suffering

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• In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Men, Broken

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.” “He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loyalty, School, Irritation

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• In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

  Dean Koontz

  Rising, Moments, Drifting

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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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• what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

  Douglas Coupland

  Country, Silence, Noise

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• Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Moving, Loss

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• In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

  Cameron Dokey

  Simple, Straightforward, Prophecy

  Cameron Dokey, Mahlon F. Craft (2008). “Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute"”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Heartbreak, Wisdom

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