“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
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“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”
― The Sweet Far Thing
― The Sweet Far Thing
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― The Sweet Far Thing
― The Sweet Far Thing
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
― The Sweet Far Thing
― The Sweet Far Thing
“I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”
― The Sweet Far Thing
― The Sweet Far Thing
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