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    Milan Kundera
    “Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: answers, barriers, boundaries, children, existence, questions
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
    There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
    It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.”
    ― Sarah Dessen , The Truth About Forever
    tags: answers, life, questions, running
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    J.D. Stroube
    “Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”
    ― J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation
    tags: answers, despair, inspiration, life, meaning, pain, purpose, questions, road, strength, survive
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    Criss Jami
    “A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: answers, arrogance, blurred, clarity, cockiness, influence, solid
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    Janice Hanna
    “Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)”
    ― Janice Hanna, Love Finds You in Poetry, Texas
    tags: answers, enduring, faith, persistence, prayer
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    Emily Dickinson
    “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: fear-communication
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