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"People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough."
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"Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail."

"A man needs only his daily bread."

"I said hello to the poodle."

"A rose does not need to boast of what the whole world already knows, its beauty."

"May your wants be few and your pleasures many."

"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"

"When I started to live in simplicity my life became peaceful, joyful, and blissful."

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind."

"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
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"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."

"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."

"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."

"Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered."

“The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.”

"It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology."
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