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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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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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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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I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow. ↗

— Seré Prince Halverson

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You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

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For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on. ↗

— Stephen King

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