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“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

“Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Once upon a time a boy loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― nicole krauss, The History of Love