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Life Quotes
"Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse."
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"Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself."
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"I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that."
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"Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away."
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"You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning."
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"I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left."
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"If you own this story you get to write the ending."
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"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
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"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
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"We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not."
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"I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years, granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age."
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"Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along, strong and brave in spirit, and gave him an helping hand. That's all very well and plausible in novels, but in life...Sasha: In life it's the same.Ivanov: I see you have a fine understanding of life!"
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"Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?"
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"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
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"Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy, filling it with art, books, ornate lanterns, and a Persian carpet as soft as lynx fur. And of course there were her angel wings taking up one whole wall. But there was no help for the real emptiness; its close air was stirred by no breath but her own. When she was alone, the empty place within her, the missingness, as she thought of it, seemed to swell. Even being with Kaz had done something to keep it at bay, though not enough. Never enough."
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"I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?"
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"Some lesson are learnt the hard way, but worthy."
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"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."
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"The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them."
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"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
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"Some of the most valued things we have in life come from changes or mistakes. Don't be afraid if you failed or if you lose someone you love, there is always the rainbow after the rain. And remember that all change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."
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"Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?"
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"I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life."
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"Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer."
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"She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering."
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"You are in charge of your own happiness, you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy."
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"If all work and no play makes you dull,Then you're on the wrong job."
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"Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand."
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"What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom."
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