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A brief life burns brightly. ↗

— Stephen Baxter

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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. ↗

— George Eliot

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It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money. ↗

— George Eliot

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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart. ↗

— Amit Ray

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I cannot apply myself to the distinctions and the reservations they insist on making -- I exist only as a whole man. I lay claim to nothing but my own nature, and the pleasure I take in an action is my clue to its propriety. ↗

— Andre Gide

#philosophy #life

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. ↗

— Jane Austen

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There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything ↗

— Denzel Washington

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Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's goal. ↗

— A. Saleh

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