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It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. —Elisabeth
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“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
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“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
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“The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.”
― The Unnamable
― The Unnamable
“Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.”
― Collected Poems in English and French
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.”
― Collected Poems in English and French
Janin’s 2025 Year in Books
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