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“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
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“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
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“douleur, one of the many French words that do not translate into English well, which means “the pain of wanting someone you cannot have.”
― Lilac Girls
― Lilac Girls
“At other times, he wondered whether it was the world that had lost its color, or his friends themselves. When had everyone become so alike? Too often, it seemed that the last time people were so interesting had been college; grad school...What had happened? Age, he guessed. And with it: Jobs. Money. Children. The things to forestall death, the things to ensure one's relevance, the things to comfort and provide context and content. The march forward, one dictated by biology and convention, that not even the most irreverent mind could withstand. But those were his peers. What he really wanted to know was when his friends had become so conventional, and why he hadn't noticed earlier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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