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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

—Dave Kellett

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Everyone wants to fall in love. But I think more people are in love with the theory of love. If you’re looking in from the outside, it looks so beautiful. On the inside, it’s scary because it can take over your life. It’s the strongest emotion but also the darkest. It can put you on a high for days, but it can wrap an anchor around your feet and drown you in less than a minute.

—Calia Read in Calia Read

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

—Germaine Greer

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Time will teach more than all our thoughts.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men know what I mean.

—Lin-Chi

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From the rise, he looks out over his place. This is it. This is all there is in the world — it contains everything there is to know or possess, yet everywhere people are knocking their brains out trying to find something different, something better. His kids all scattered, looking for it. Everyone always wants a way out of something like this, but what he has here is the main thing there is — just the way things grow and die, the way the sun comes up and goes down every day. These are the facts of life. They are so simple, they are almost impossible to grasp.

—Bobbie Ann Mason

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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

—Richard Bach

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. … You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

—William Boyd

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

—Simone Weil

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We often hear of the beauties of old age, but the only old age that is beautiful is the one the man has been long preparing for by living a beautiful life. Every one of us is right now preparing for old age. … There may be a substitute somewhere in the world for Good Nature, but I do not know where it can be found. The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

—John Updike

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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

—Bertrand Russell

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