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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. You could wear, once more, your own life in all its stages, from whatever they wrapped you in when you emerged from the dark red naked warmth of the womb to your deathbed. ↗

— Linda Grant

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There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #truth #inspirational

To live is to be haunted. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life #live #life

When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life. ↗

— James Howe

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This is life, we look but we don't see,and we hear but we don't learn. ↗

— Ali Altantawi

#learn #life #see #life

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass. ↗

— George Eliot

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This is so embarrassing," Melantha murmured as he stopped beside her bed and leaned down to settle her on the mattress. His lips, she thought, brushed her temple. "You frightened me out of ten years of my life when you tumbled off the couch," he muttered near her ear. "You are not allowed to faint unless it is from my kisses. ↗

— Julia Keaton

#melantha #ransom #stanger-in-my-bed #life

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? ↗

— Simon Cheshire

#life #passion #life

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life. ↗

— L.A. Witt

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