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Transition Quotes
"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."
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"Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing..."
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."
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"There was only one option left, and it was letting go."
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"The nearer the dawnthe darker the night."
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"The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded-not to weep, not to mourn, I was yet too calm for that, but-mechanically to take off the wedding dress, and replace it by the stuff gown I had worn yesterday, as I thought, for the last time. I then sat down: I felt weak and tired. I leaned my arms on a table, and my head dropped on them. And now I thought: till now I had only heard, seen, moved-followed up and down where I was led or dragged-watched event rush on event, disclosure open beyond disclosure: but now, I thought."
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"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."
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"The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That's what seemed real now " the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way."
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"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."
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"Windows 7 is on its way to being an obsolete product. Keeping it on your computer long term will leave you with an obsolete computer. Windows 10 has numerous problems, but lack of support soon is not one of them."
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"Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings."
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"We move between two darknesses."
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"From one point my father is dead I need time to get rid of this topic, from other side I will have a big holiday from 3.28.2016 up to the end of the April Vacation. That's awesome, isn't it??I will be a lot of time out of school!"
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"They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began."
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"On the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future."
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"Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies."
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"Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all."
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"You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future."
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"...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun."
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"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
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"When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere."
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"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."
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"This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction ofDemian, but even this was a distant fate. I did not know myself, for I was too deeply involved. It had begunwith Beatrice, but for some time I had been living in such an unreal world with my paintings and my thoughtsof Demian that I'd forgotten all about her, too. I could not have uttered a single word about my dreams andexpectations, my inner change, to anyone, not even if I had wanted to. But how could I have wanted to?"
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"Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives."
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"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."
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"I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same."
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"Although I've been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning."
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"Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back."
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"The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school."
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"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."
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"They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them."
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"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."
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"I know what happens a the end of falling-landing."
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"You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with."
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"How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime."
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"You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the other day, she plunged into it. She said 'Why not?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable. She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto."
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"Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."
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