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 | "The world has different owners at sunrise ... Even your own garden
does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a
tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls,
and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris
spears." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have
ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark
me." | |
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Found in the topic Flattery.
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| "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to
whom my heart responds." | |
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Found in the topic Heart.
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| "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have
tried and succeeded." | |
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Found in the topic Factory.
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| "We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of
relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb.
We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration,
on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is
in growth, in fluidity ? in freedom." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn?t seem to
crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of
its own." | |
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Found in the topic Give.
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| "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower
even from the cliffs of despair." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being
insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a
mask." | |
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Found in the topic Lever.
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| "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in
demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship
lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might
be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now." | |
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Found in the topic Relationships.
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| "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can
collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few." | |
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Found in the topic Cannot.
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