"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

Effort, Perfection, Worth

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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

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"The one thing that matters is the effort."

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"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about."

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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"

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"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

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"A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated."

Mystery

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

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"We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them."

Behavior

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

Acceptance

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

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"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."

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"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

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