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Faye’s Quotes

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

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“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

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“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

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