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“According to my father, the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you'd spent your youth reading books with in the passionate pursuit of a shared ideal.”
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“A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
― The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
― The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
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― The Overstory
“It's a good moment, which is all you can count on or hope for, I think. Tiny little good moments that you catch like a firefly, and just life fireflies, you have to release them, because the whole point is that they're tiny and little and need to be with other fireflies. They aren't a pet. They aren't yours to keep. They're just moments. They're just fireflies.”
― The Great American Whatever
― The Great American Whatever
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