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Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.


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There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.



The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.



To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.



One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.



If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.



The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!



Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.



One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.




Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.





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You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop.

You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop.



Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.



Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.



We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.



Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.

Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.



We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz

We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz



This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.



In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.



A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.




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