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"In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!"

"We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not."
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"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."


"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."


"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."


"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."


"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."


"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."


"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
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