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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
― Victor Hugo