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"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same."
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"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order A la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"
"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
"Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone!"
"Weeds blend in, roses stand out."
"Dare to be different."
"Don't waste your life by living in another person's shoes."
"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."
"Society destroys your individuality, your soul."
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"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."
"Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all."
"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."
"And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?' he said softly.'Assuredly,' she said, 'provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything."
"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."
"And I need you, my love,' he said. 'I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that-Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you.'To look after Augusta?' she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. 'To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?'Yes,' he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet.'And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover."
"Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair."
"But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong."
"You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you."
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