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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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What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

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That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to. ↗

— Matthew Good

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Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours. ↗

— Wally Lamb

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It's not adviseable to always go around doubting others all the time. However, it is logical. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

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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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A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

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