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“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“—You’re very poetic.
—No, just sad.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“What I didn’t know then was that when you try to hold on to the past as hard as I was, you sometimes miss out on living in the present. I wish that someone had told me, Christina, live in the moment and dream of the future. That doesn’t mean you lose yourself. But stopping where you are now will cost you more than you can imagine.”
― Christina Rickardsson, Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

“Love can’t be bought, manufactured, or elicited on request. It’s a gift that we choose to give and to receive. It’s unselfish and maybe it can’t move mountains, but it can do something even better: it can save a life.”
― Christina Rickardsson, Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

“It’s not where you come from; it’s where you belong that matters. And it’s OK to feel like you belong in more than one place.”
― Christina Rickardsson, Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider