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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell. ↗

— Merce Cardus

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If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

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I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the Earth. ↗

— Raymond Carver - from his grave marker

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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In life, you love the one whom you can never have. ↗

— Yash Masane

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Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time. ↗

— Anna Myers

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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. ↗

— The Buddha

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