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“I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have”
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“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.”
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“The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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“Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.”
Source : "Kamala Harris slams Romney on housing" by Drew Joseph, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2012. 
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“I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.”
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“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”
Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.192, Faber & Faber
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“I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.”
Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
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“Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.”
