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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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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?"

"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."

"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."

"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"

"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."

"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."

"What you are seeking is yourself."

"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."

"The world is full of vanities."
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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."

"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."

"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."

"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."
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