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"They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them."
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"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."

"Windows 7 is on its way to being an obsolete product. Keeping it on your computer long term will leave you with an obsolete computer. Windows 10 has numerous problems, but lack of support soon is not one of them."

"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."

"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

"Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."

"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."

"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."

"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."

"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."

"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."
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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."

"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."

"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."

"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."

"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."

"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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