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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”
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“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
― From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
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