Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

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