Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
Tags: religion, life, human-condition, human, existentialism, death

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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
Tags: reading, books
Si tratta di dargli un po' di tempo, è solo di questo che hanno bisogno gli uomini, di tempo, ed è soltanto questo che hanno, il resto non è che illusione
Tags: time, humans
The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...
Tags: time, loss
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
Tags: time-passing, time, life-and-living, gambling
... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Tags: relationships
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