I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ― Walter Tevis

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I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ― Frank Herbert

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When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ― Ben Okri

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ― Robert Frost

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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ― Robert Heinlein

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To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. ― Lewis Carroll

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