"You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself."

-- Jodi Picoult

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“One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.”
“Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.”
“Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.”
“Only ignorance excuses stupidity”
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
“I have a healthy amount of humility.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.”
“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”

Source : Machado de Assis (2015). “Iaiá Garcia”, p.23, University Press of Kentucky

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