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"We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."

"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."

"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."

"What you are seeking is yourself."

"The world is full of vanities."

"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."

"We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world."

"Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life."

"Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach."
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