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sustained by

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment. Angela Carter

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Anthony Burgess

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. Gabriel García Márquez

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said. Joanna Newsom

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Oriana Fallaci

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