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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
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    John Irving
    “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
    tags: memory
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Norman Cousins
    “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
    ― Norman Cousins
    tags: death
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    W. Edwards Deming
    “Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
    ― W. Edwards Deming
    tags: education
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Anthony Burgess
    “In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
    tags: freudian, motivation, reason
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    Anthony Burgess
    “But don’t think that it’s a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It’s our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it’s cold outside. But it’s not the cold’s fault that it’s cold.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
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    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier
    tags: life, words
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone
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    Plato
    “Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational, life, wisdom
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    Mark Twain
    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Eugene T. Gendlin
    “What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”
    ― Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing
    tags: belief, facing-reality, truth
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