"Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do."

-- Vikram Seth

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“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.”
“Une histoire d'amour dont les Ã©pisodes ont Ã©tÃ© mÃ©langÃ©s par un fou”
“You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.”
“My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve, who's six months old now My mom hasn't met her yet, and last night she said, 'Show me some pictures!' I'm looking through my phone like, 'Well, I got a couple, but they're from two months ago'”
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”
“I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.”

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“Iâ€™m actually pretty good at stripping, which makes me wonder what happened in my previous life. Funny enough, I donâ€™t wear a lot of clothes when I dance and itâ€™s very sexy, so it wasnâ€™t too hard to get into the motion of it.”
“Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.”

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