Martyr!
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Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.


“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman

“If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules

“It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.”
― Go Tell It on the Mountain
― Go Tell It on the Mountain
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