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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

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September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.” Alexander Theroux

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“Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.” William Stafford

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Je vois le vie en rose

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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller

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It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. (Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), British author. "The Pleasures of Opium," Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.)

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.” ― L.M. Montgomery

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Margaret Mead

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