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#1

“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

tags: death, dying, life, normalcy, ordinary-life

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#2

“And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving…”
― Marilyn Thomsen

tags: ordinary-life

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#3

“Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would click on some of the flashlights and consider the ceiling, with the radiant swirls around the bright nuclei, the shadows like opened oysters glistening in brine. (In the '80s, the champagne was always waiting.)”
― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men

tags: life, ordinariness, ordinary-life

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#4

“The more you spend your time in the ordinary streets, the more extraordinary things you will learn!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, ordinary-life, ordinary-streets, streets, streets-quotes

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#5

“I marvelled, not for the first time, at the cruel complacency of ordinary things. But no, not cruel, not complacent, only indifferent, as how could they be otherwise? Henceforth, I would have to address things as they are, not as I imagine them, for this was a new version of reality.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: ordinary-life, perception, reality

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#6

“I could live with failure. I had and would. But ORDINARY? Not a fucking chance.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS

tags: failure, failure-and-attitude, failure-and-success, failure-quotes, ordinary-life

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#7

“Evenings that no one else can remember live in you, when the snow touched your face or the rain caught you unprepared, when you were all alone and yet marked by all the others who have made you who you are. There are things you cannot leave behind or wish you could retrieve. And there is hope you cannot extinguish—whether buried or insistent, broken or confident, the one never excluding the other. (92)”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

tags: hope, identity, ordinary-life

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#8

“I'm smart enough to see whatever is going on. Too dumb to piece it all together. Not dumb enough to live a simple fantasy and just go with it.”
― Billy-Dean Gonzalez

tags: life, ordinary-life, reality

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#9

“Simple things are the most difficult ones; they enquire much more than one thought of ordinariness.”
― Laura Chouette

tags: ordinarinessary, ordinary, ordinary-life, ordinary-lives, ordinary-people, ordinary-quotes, poetry, simple-life, simple-things-in-life

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#10

“There was nothing inherently special about it, but that's what made the whole thing so memorable.”
― Emma Eggleston, Escape

tags: life, memories, ordinary, ordinary-life, remember, special, the-little-things, the-little-things-that-counts

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#11

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#12

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#13

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: follow-your-bliss, self-actualization

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#14

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: disposition, intimacy, marianne-dashwood, openness, opportunity, self-disclosure, time

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#15

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#16

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: devotion, love, misattributed, pronouncements-of-love

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#17

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: agreement, compliments, discussion, disdain, intelligence, opposition, rationality, reason

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#18

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: books, reading

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#19

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#20

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: youthful-optimism

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#21

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: chapter-17, edward-ferrars, shyness

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#22

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#23

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: hopelessness

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#24

“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

-Elinor Dashwood”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: chapter-17, elinor-dashwood, sense

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#25

“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: fail-to-do, makes-us-who-we-are, think-or-feel, what-we-do

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#26

“to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: wishful-thinking

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#27

“..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: anticipation

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#28

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#29

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#30

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: matchmaking, meddling

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