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A.A. Milne
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber.”
Kurt Vonnegut

John Greenleaf Whittier
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier

Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost

Ernest Hemingway
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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