"Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And thatâ€™s importantâ€”you know”
“Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.”
“My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.”
“Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.”
“What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.”

Source : Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.36, Spatterlight Press
“I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.”
“At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.”

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