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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."

"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
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"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."
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