For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him — the human defect — and kept away.

Alice Sebold
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  2. Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

  3. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

  4. Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

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