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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Karen Blixen
    “You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
    Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

  • #3
    Karen Blixen
    “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
    Isak Dinesen

  • #4
    Karen Blixen
    “Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”
    Isak Dinesen

  • #5
    Karen Blixen
    “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
    Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

  • #6
    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #7
    David Foster Wallace
    “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #8
    Beau Taplin
    “Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.”
    Beau Taplin

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  • #10
    Anthony De Sa
    “The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
    Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love

  • #11
    “Balances flow into one another, like the tides. Their boundaries are seldom clearly drawn.”
    J. Earp

  • #12
    Karen Blixen
    “It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”
    Isak Dinesen



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