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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales