Arthur Japin quotes
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“If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.”
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“Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.”
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“One can only learn what one doesn’t know.”
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“Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.”
-- Arthur JapinSource : "In Lucia's Eyes". Book by Arthur Japin, www.npr.org. 2006.
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“My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!”
-- Arthur JapinSource : "'I was Casanova's very first lover'" by Laura Baggaley, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
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“I felt before I thought, as all humans do.”
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“The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.”
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“That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
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Source : Adam Hamilton (2011). “The Journey, Expanded Large Print Edition: Walking the Road to Bethlehem”, p.73, Abingdon Press
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“If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.”
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“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
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