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The first day of the rest of my life. ↗

— Lee Child

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You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#daylight #individuation #maturity #philosophy-of-life #psychology

I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes. ↗

— Jean Guitton

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Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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The world was floods above and fire below ↗

— Gregory Maguire

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. ↗

— Mark Twain

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#disturbed #learning #life #philosophy #wisdom

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future. ↗

— Jonas Eriksson

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