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"What good does it do to lie all day in the sun
loving what is easy? It never grew easy." — May 10, 2026 02:12PM
"What good does it do to lie all day in the sun
loving what is easy? It never grew easy." — May 10, 2026 02:12PM
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
― The Human Condition
― The Human Condition
“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
― Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
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