Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. ― Anthony Doerr

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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong. ― D.H. Lawrence

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I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all. ― Dora J. Arod

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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. ― Ruta Sepetys

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt. ― Gena Showalter

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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for. ― Roy T. Bennett

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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. ― Sei Shōnagon

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There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. ― Jonathan Safran Foer

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