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"A gentleman can live through anything."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."

"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."

"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."

"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."

"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."

"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
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