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"Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."

"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't exactly know what they are!"

"All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story."

"I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life."

"Life is too big for small dreams."

"Life without love is empty, success without happiness is a mirage."

"May you have a fresh strength in the spring season."

"May you have fresh strength in the spring season."

"The world belongs to dreamers."
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"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!"

"I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self."

"One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop."

"If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it."

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."

"You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!"

"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."

"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."
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