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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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