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#2

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#3

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, carpe-diem, future, present

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#4

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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#5

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

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#6

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#7

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

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#8

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

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#9

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

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#10

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

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#11

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#12

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#13

“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

tags: beautiful, close-enough, dancing, rush-away, sea, touch, wild

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#14

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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#15

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#16

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#17

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

tags: egg, food

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#18

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

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#19

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

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#20

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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#21

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#22

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

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#23

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#24

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment

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#25

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

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#26

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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#27

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

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#28

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

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#29

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

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#30

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon

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#31

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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