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“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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“‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth”
― Francis Picabia

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“Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb”
― Jeannette Winterson

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