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Life Quotes
"Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day?"
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"All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years."
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"They were more free, but they were more alone."
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"You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble."
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"Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?"
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"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."
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"Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are."
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"I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do."
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"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
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"It has been a Prosy day for us, but for some people it has been a wonderful day. Someone was rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today- a great poem written- or a great man born. And some heart has been broken, Phil."
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"I crawled over the mountain of death, Watching the corpses roll down like the stones. Searching for the light which everyone always spoke of. I fought the wolves and also the death, and knocked the door, which already had a thousand handprints, soaked with blood. The door opened finally and I saw the light, which hit me in the heart and pushed me down the steep. I fell into the never ending pit, watching others crawl up the mountain in the search of light."
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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
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"Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self imposed limits."
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"Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties."
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"One can build a perfect home, but not live in it."
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"Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party."
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"One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind."
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"We take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."
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"Heaven doesn't make this life less important, it makes it more important."
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"Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it.Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for?Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s.Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it."
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"I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart."
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"Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever said that life was fair."
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"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and-in spite of True Romance magazines-we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely-at least, not all the time-but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."
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"No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . ."
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"She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white."
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"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
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"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
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"My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening."
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"Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!"
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"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."
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"Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any."
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