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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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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."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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