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"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
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"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."

"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ."

"They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion."

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."

"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."

"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."

"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."

"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit."


"If we don't do anything to change the lives of our people and our country, we live a vain life."


"Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction."


"If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem."
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