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Reflection Quotes
"It is no use trying to sum people up."
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"I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother."
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"I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong."
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"Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thoughtAs Hermes with his lyre in sleep profoundThe hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound;For I am weary, and am overwroughtWith too much toil, with too much care distraught,And with the iron crown of anguish crowned.Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek,O peaceful Sleep! until from pain releasedI breathe again uninterrupted breath!Ah, with what subtile meaning did the GreekCall thee the lesser mystery at the feastWhereof the greater mystery is death!"
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"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more?"
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"Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow."
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"When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat."
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"The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life."
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"Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they're asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like."
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"I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes."
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"The more we give of ourself, the more we find ourself."
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"What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves - our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies."
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"Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?"
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"In my silence do I enhance my talents."
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"Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind."
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"It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness."
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"Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime."
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"Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin."
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"Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to conscious attention all that once went unseen. It is meant to make you more loving. It is meant to make you more wise, but less certain. It is meant to make us humble, yet supremely confident. It is meant to remind us of our frailty while simultaneously making us feel invincible."
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"The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water."
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"Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms-his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought-making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share-it smashed to atoms."
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"It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love."
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"Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone."
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"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."
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"Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia."
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"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
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"Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek."
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"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands."
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"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them."
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"If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference, Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important is the essence. Although we still have free will We also have a whole lot to deal."
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"But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit."
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"Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today."
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"In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets."
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"I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions."
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"To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it, it is learning how to use it."
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"Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky."
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"I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up."
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"I go to the ocean to say goodbye."
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"The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?"
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"She had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love."
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"Let's stop and start thinking."
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"It's January and I'm kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care, because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and people, around me and behindand I remember being still for just a second or two, thinking that it's so much easier to leave and start anew, than take care of what's already here."
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"A nation that forgets its past has no future."
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"Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it."
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"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing."
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"He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing."
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"Cherish the beauty and cherish the pain, both will give you experience and you will never be the same."
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"The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,Extremes too hard to comprehend at. onceYet nothing I should care to leave behind.With all I have to hold with hand and mindAnd heart, if need be, I will do my best.To keep their building balanced at my breast.I crouch down to prevent them as they fall;Then sit down in the middle of them all.I had to drop the armful in the roadAnd try to stack them in a better load."
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