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“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
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The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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