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It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway. ↗

— Dave Eggers

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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical ↗

— Charles Frazier

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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ↗

— James Norman Hall

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They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. ↗

— Corita Kent

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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. ↗

— Henry James

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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so. ↗

— Xenophon

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In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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