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"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."

"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."

"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."

"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
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"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."


"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."


"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."


"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."


"The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have."
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