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“If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it. Somebody else's experience can never be yours.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
― Walt Whitman

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“He loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book.”
― Jack London

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde