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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to be happy.”
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― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues & My Own Private Idaho
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.”
― The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, 3 Vols
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