#iv

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#answer #been #calling #disappointment #hear

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#child #confronted #critical #direction #father

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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As long as you live, keep learning how to live. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#keep #learning #live #long #you

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#burns #earth #eternity #fire #gives

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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