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Life Quotes
"Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death."
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"They were all on his side. Hi boat sank."
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"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility."
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"I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason."
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"The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves."
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"Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible."
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"If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had imagined my own ghost and seen my unvanishing footsteps. When you don't belong anywhere it doesn't matter where you are or where you go, if you stay or move on. You arrive at a place where the view forwards and backwards is the same, where the sun rises in the east one day and the west the next, where you stop planning and live like the birds and beasts by intuition and instinct."
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"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
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"Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young."
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"Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with."
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"My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here."
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"Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life."
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"As the lines on the palm and forehead turned darker and thicker, as he matured along the highs and lows of life - wave, the hazy and blurred phrases shook off the dust of time and dried the moisture of pain, thus being vivid like an image on a carved glass. The incidences in his life ahead sharpened the blunt edges of diamond and the hitherto blurred prophecies found meaning, found reflection like that in a mirror."
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"Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers."
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
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"Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity."
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"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life."
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"I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,and I have followed the source of rivers towards theirsource or plunged into forests, always making for othercities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; andI could never turn back any more than a record can spinin reverse. And all that was leading me where ?To this very moment..."
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"Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive."
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"Hard times define one's character."
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"I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response."
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"In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City."
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"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
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"Life can be moulded to suit individual desires."
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"Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life."
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"Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs."
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