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Ben’s Quotes

“Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.”
― Annie Dillard

tags: inspirational, life

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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
― Lawrence J. Peter

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“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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“Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.”
― Marilynne Robinson

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“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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