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Ursula Hegi
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“Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than what we imagine.”
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“A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.”
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“Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where — as the stories changed — it transformed you, too.”
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“About endings ... unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.”
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“That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and — in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love — you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.”
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“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
Ursula Hegi, German-born U.S. writer
(1946)