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Life Quotes
"What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter."
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"Past tears are present strength."
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"One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time."
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
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"This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years."
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"He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right."
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"No matter how worldly I became, there was always that one part of me that never forgot where I came from and how simple life was there."
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"Life is a very scary reality; you just have to keep moving ahead, doing what you do."
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"Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living."
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"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life."
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"Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever."
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"What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over."
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"If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music."
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"There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood."
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"It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away."
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"When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore."
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"Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all."
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"It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."
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"When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor."
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"Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them."
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"My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn't think about completing myself."
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"In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see."
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"That was the kind of life she'd had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn't worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she'd come to understand."
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"I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal."
Life,
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"I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal."
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"All changes are positive, just look in the bright side, always and you find the pearl that lies beneath in the sand and a sunny way is there ahead for you!"
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"The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate."
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"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
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"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something."
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