It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
("The Sound and the Fury")
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Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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