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She Regretted Having Taken His Hand, She Wanted To Get Away From There As Soon As Possible, To Hide Her Shame, Never Again To See That Man Who Had Witnessed All That Was Most Sordid In Her, And Who Nevertheless Continued To Treat Her With Such Tenderness. But Again She Remembered Mari's Words: She Didn't Need To Explain Her Life To Anyone, Not Even To The Young Man Standing Before Her.

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She Regretted Having Taken His Hand, She Wanted To Get Away From There As Soon As Possible, To Hide Her Shame, Never Again To See That Man Who Had Witnessed All That Was Most Sordid In Her, And Who Nevertheless Continued To Treat Her With Such Tenderness. But Again She Remembered Mari's Words: She Didn't Need To Explain Her Life To Anyone, Not Even To The Young Man Standing Before Her.

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Omens Are The Individual Language In Which God Talks To You. My Omens Are Not Your Omens.

Our Contradictions. We Are In Such A Hurry To Grow Up, And Then We Long For Our Lost Childhood. We Make Ourselves Ill Earning Money, And Then Spend All Our Money On Getting Well Again. We Think So Much About The Future That We Neglect The Present, And Thus Experience Neither The Present Nor The Future. We Live As If We Were Never Going To Die, And Die As If We Had Never Lived.

I Never Say I Am A Guru.

The Three Classic Ways In Which The Devil Tempts Us Are With A Threat, A Promise Or A Seduction.

A Miracle Happened: Another Day Of Life.

We Must Do Jobs We Detest Because We Are Part Of An Organized Society, And If Everyone Did What They Wanted To Do, The World Would Come To A Standstill.

He Too Shares His World With The People He Loves.

One Of Many Ways To Be Useful Is To Inspire People To Forget Some Rules Imposed By Society. Important Rules Are Dictated By Our Hearts.

The Good Fight Is The One That We Fight In The Name Of Our Dreams.

A Warrior Of Light Knows That Certain Impossible Battles Are Worth Fighting And So He/she Is Not Afraid Of Being Disappointed, Knowing The Power Of His/her Love.

The Soul Loves All Things Beautiful And Deep.

Forgive But Do Not Forget, Or You Will Be Hurt Again. Forgiving Changes The Perspectives. Forgetting Loses The Lesson.

Up Until Then, Whenever Anyone Had Mentioned The Possibility Of Making A Film Adaptation, My Answer Had Always Been, ‘no, I’m Not Interested.’ I Believe That Each Reader Creates His Own Film Inside His Head, Gives Faces To The Characters, Constructs Every Scene, Hears The Voices, Smells The Smells. And That Is Why, Whenever A Reader Goes To See A Film Based On A Novel That He Likes, He Leaves Feeling Disappointed, Saying: ‘the Book Is So Much Better Than The Film.

Don't Think About What You've Left Behind.

In These Words Lies All His Power: He Chose The Path Along Which He Is Walking And So Has No Complaints.

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