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Life Quotes
"I have read 391 books... please- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me."
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"A flower that refuses to bloom robs the world of its beauty."
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"I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles."
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"Failure is an opportunity to learn again."
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"We live a life bounded by the perception of the self. Existence entails tabulating our personal contact with reality and plumbing the substance of the self. The loftiest task of all is to dream a worthy life and then go live it without fearing the unknown. It is wonderful to live; we must cherish our time by loving other people and adoring nature. We find ourselves through trial and error. We must not allow failure, pain, disappointment, heartache, or sour feelings to daunt us because each of these emotional indexes interprets our dream world intermixing with reality."
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"Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau- and for what? It was the wantonness of it that stirred me."
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"There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart."
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"Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives."
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"The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking, the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!"
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"You're sleeping here?" He'd originally planned to just cuff her to him but now she'd proved the cuffs were useless and she didn't seem to be going anywhere."Well, I'm not sleeping on the floor. Unless you're worried about me killing you in your sleep?"
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"How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fantasy and trick of fameGo to their graves like beds, fight for a plotWhereon the numbers cannot try the cause,Which is not tomb enough and continentTo hide the slain? O, from this time forthMy thoughts be bloody or be nothing."
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"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."
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"Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion."
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"Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men."
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"You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?"
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"Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak."
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"If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it."
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"People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments."
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"Occasionally we must disconnect to reconnect later on."
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"You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after."
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"Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity."
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"Library: The Temple of the Wise!"
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"Life always gives us another change: It's called "To Move On"."
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"From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move."
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"Excuse me, Tex,' the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits."
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"The most challenging aspect of living is staying in your lane."
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"I like the concept that people are alive."
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"Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak."
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"With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me."
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"Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them."
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"A sunrise is a wondrous marvel, but in reality the sun never rises. It is the earth that rotates to face the sun. Life too can be a wondrous marvel, but like the earth, we must turn our eyes toward brighter things."
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"If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this...Don't take life WAY too seriously."
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"For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!"
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"He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear."
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