

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun
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