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“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four