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"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
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"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."
"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."
"That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that."
"One thing left me, my dad died before few weeks and with the time will be very far... It will start with seconds, hours, days, weeks, months, years....My grandpa died this year, my grandpa other died somewhere in 2012-2013, my dog died 2014, Robin Williams died... Everyone dies, what I can do for that???"
"The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg."
"Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came."
"Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back."
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."
"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
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