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And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that “knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.”
“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.”
― The End of Your Life Book Club
― The End of Your Life Book Club
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
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“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
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“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”
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