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"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."
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"In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking."
"Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist."
"Riches bring only problems and sorrows to people."
"Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold."
"Isn't materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?"
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention."
"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"
"Money isn't everything. It's the only thing."
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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."
"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."
"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!"
"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."
"Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars."
"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."
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