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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful. ”
― Marjane Satrapi