"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."

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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."

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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

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Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Maya Angelou, American Poet

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Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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