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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

“Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
― William Steig, Dominic

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women