"I was going to be a memory when I grew up."

-- Alejandro Zambra

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“We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.”
“When you die, you donâ€™t go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.”
“Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.”

Source : Rihanna @rihanna, twitter.com. June 6, 2012.
“Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.”
“Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.”
“I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.”
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”

Source : "Yet Do I Marvel" l. 13 (1925)
“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.”

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