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People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#moving #the-world #traveling #life

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father) ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#shipwreck #life

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. ↗

— John Ruskin

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After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#enemy #life #time #life

No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong KIND of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless. ↗

— Christina Meldrum

#madapple #meaning #mystery #life

Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#deaf #growth #silent #life

Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this. Zoey: How Grandma? Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#zoey #zoey-redbird #life

I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories. ↗

— John Marsden

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