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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

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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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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

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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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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

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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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