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“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”
Source : James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)
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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin
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“When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.”
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“I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.”
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“But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.”
Source : Rebecca Stead (2008). “First Light”, p.216, Yearling
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“I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.”
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“I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.”
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“I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.”
