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"I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness, but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference that was only pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether."

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

"I am life,' the girl said.'What?' he said, startled.'To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I'm life and when you're done with me, some of it rubs off on you. You don't feel so old now, do you? With me here in the squib beside you.'Nick said, 'I'm thirty-four and I don't feel old. As a matter of fact, sitting here with you makes me feel older, not younger. Nothing is rubbing off.''It will,' she said."

"What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them."

"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."

"Keep flax from fire youth from gaming."
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"I didn't mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me."

"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."

"I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more."

"The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do."

"You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape."
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