Criminal Law by Emily Finch

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus