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“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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