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"We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced-or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?"
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"Every artist takes their final work to the grave."

"Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation."

"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

"Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity."

"THE NAKED HEARTFrom womb to tomb,There came and went -Only you.Poor or rich,You will die withOnly you.All the wealth you harvestIn the living,Will go to others when you are dead.But the true test of a lion of God -Is to keep giving with your own hands,Before you rest in your final bed."
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"We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare.""Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great.""Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'."


"Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see."


"Becky --" he begins, and there's a tiny intake of breath around the churchyard. "Will you--" "Yes! Yeee-esssss!" I hear the joyful sound ripping through the churchyard before I even realize I've opened my mouth. I'm so charged up with emotion, my voice doesn't even sound like mine. In fact, it sounds more like...Mum.I don't believe it."


"We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed."


"To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)"


"I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?"


"Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too."
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