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She had lost faith in him so gradually that at first he'd hardly even noticed.

— Ali Shaw The Trees (2016)

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"Anything you do a lot of, you get good at."

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"Work out what you really want from life."

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The rain watered the world so heavily that he wondered if it might rinse it away. He did not think he would mind if it did.

The Trees (2016)

"What good is being in love with a person, if it only binds you to a thousand quiet disappointments, and new problems for every one that you fix?"

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"Look at you. Your folded arms. Your smug sneer. How do men like you get put in charge of the world, when you don't know the first thing about it?"

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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