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#1

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: confidence

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#2

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#3

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#4

“On any sea voyage, even one as mundane as a cross-channel car ferry, it is difficult to focus on your destination until you have lost sight of the land.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: boats, destination, ferries, ferry, land, sea, ships, voyage

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#5

“Don’t give in, she urged the girl from inside her own head. Insist on your wriggly wiggly worms. Don’t let them take your story from you. If they do, you won’t ever hear it again and you’ll always have to read their books and be their little princess. Stand firm. Make them read you your wriggly wiggly worms.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: feminism, stories, worms

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#6

“Even phantoms don’t inhabit Bruges any more. It’s as though the living are the ghouls now, the zombies. It’s so uncannily empty, silent, lifeless…”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: bruges, brugge, ghosts

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#7

“I must speak a language that nobody else speaks. A language which was created solely for me.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: isolation, language, languages, loneliness

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#8

“They’re witch marks (...) They’re what people used to draw around their windows and fireplaces in the old days to stop evil getting in. But in this case, it’s likely they’re trying to stop evil from getting out.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: spells, witch, witch-marks, witchcraft, witches

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#9

“I never had any free will. My life was always dictated by other people. I’m on a conveyor belt trundling towards some pre-ordained destiny and I don’t know how to get off it.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: destiny, free-will, pre-ordained

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#10

“If the church believes in holy miracles then surely the reverse, the very blackest of magic phenomena, is also within the realms of the possible.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: magic, miracles, satan, satanism

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#11

“Use your position wisely, young man. Remember that some stories are best left untold. Other news needs to be shouted from the church steeple. Yours is a task that requires wisdom and judgement. All stories are not the same.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: judgement, stories, wisdom

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#12

“These are the stories that I must leave untold, for they are not mine to tell.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: secrets, stories, story, storytelling

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#13

“Why does death not come? It can only be because God still has some purpose in keeping me alive. I must still achieve something before I am permitted to leave this life. But what could it be?”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: death, destiny, purpose, unfinished-business, unfinished-work

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#14

“Remember that this is a man’s confession of his sins. He did not write it for the entertainment of future generations, this is a man wrestling with the devil for his own soul.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: confession, damnation, devil, sin, sins, soul

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#15

“I’m not a strong virgin any more, I’m a mighty woman. I’m no longer just the ghost of a human being, I’m solid. But how could I be real if I never cast a shadow? I need my darker side in order to be whole.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

tags: dark-side, feminism, shadow, virgin, virginity, woman

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#16

“The English nation per se is dysfunctional. Don't take it so personally.”
― Cathy Dobson, Planet Germany

tags: dysfunctional, english, german, germany, nation

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#17

“All my friends have proper mothers. And I ended up with a batty Englishwoman who can't do laundry.”
― Cathy Dobson, Planet Germany

tags: children, laundry, mother, motherhood

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#18

“These ladies with Dachshunde are the most dangerous, violent and evil beings ever to stalk the streets in search of cyclists to maim and kill.”
― Cathy Dobson, Planet Germany

tags: bicycles, cyclists, dachshund, dachshunds, danger, old-ladies

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#19

“The left-hand lane is exclusively for the use of Porsches, BMWs and Mercedes. Dark-coloured vehicles only please. If you're driving a white or silver car please stick to the middle lane at all times and moderate your speed. Loser!”
― Cathy Dobson

tags: car, driving, german, germany, lanes, roads, speed, speeding, vehicle

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#20

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan

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#21

“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”
― Mark Twain

tags: satan

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#22

“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

tags: destroy, philosophy, powerful, protect, resourceful

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#23

“I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

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