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To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.


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A. BALASUBRAMANIAM I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i...
A. ALVAREZ Love, while you are able to love.
A. FRIELIGRATH If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all you...
A. NEILEN Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. SACHS There is no burden in love, because love is always selfish
NOVELLINA A. Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
A. NIELSEN I said to him, 'You know, I found that story very interesting. You see, President Putin, I think you...
A. BUSH Companies that fail to adhere to environmental laws not only put our natural resources and wildlife ...
A. JOHNSON Their example is an inspiration to all who share the universal values of freedom, democracy and the ...
A. BUSH The biggest threat to our recovery is for the Congress to overspend, ... We have the funds to meet o...
A. BUSH Kyoto is in many ways unrealistic,
A. BUSH People know we're close ... As a result of my friendship with Harriet, I know her strength of charac...
A. BUSH As a coach, I can only give them the formula; they do the work,
A. JOHNSON You're only as strong as your fifth runner,
A. JOHNSON It helps me, personally, to train with people who are better than me. We're with them every Saturday...
A. JOHNSON she says, ''It's really about doing the science differently, doing the clinical care differently. We...
A. JOHNSON It's better when you have two people that kind of grew up together instead of two people who are kin...
A. JOHNSON We've got to get our act together, ... We're getting our clock cleaned.
A. JOHNSON It can't just be a warm body ... it's got to be somebody who commands respect,
A. JOHNSON I saw, with him here at the helm, the great potential to do some important things.
A. JOHNSON Inside these walls, you can be anyone you want to be,
A. JOHNSON I alternate between hope and despair,
A. JOHNSON [Mincberg told IBD that] in the wake of the tragedy ... appeasing the right.
A. BUSH People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company
A. GUIGNON When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-or absolutely right
A. GUIGNON