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"Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons."
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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."
"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."
"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."
"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."
"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."
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"Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency."
"He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor."
"Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist."
"If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing."
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