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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Learn your history. It’s a wonderful history. So many wonderful things have happened in the last 100 years. We have come so far. We still have a ways to go, but that’s your job, you and your children and their children. We will get there. I know it.”
― Buck O'Neil, The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History

“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood