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Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado, Barbara Shelby Merello, Moacyr Scliar (2003). “Tieta: The Goat Girl, Or the Return of the Prodigal Daughter, a Melodramatic Serial Novel in Five Sensational Episodes, with a Touching Epilogue : Thrills and Suspense!”, p.10, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1773, Simon and Schuster

Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.204

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

"Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor Adorno, 1951.

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

"Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 12: "The Dreams", p. 184, 1970.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

John Henry Newman, Ian Turnbull Ker, Thomas Gornall, Gerard Tracey, Francis J. McGrath (1961). “Letters and Diaries: The Vatican Council, June 1870-Dec. 1871”