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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Dreams are necessary to life.

—Anaïs Nin

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I hadn't realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

—Aldous Huxley

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

—Jessamyn West

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Getting caught is the mother of invention.

—Robert Byrne

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every failure is a step to success.

—William Whewell

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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

—Winston Churchill

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

—Richard Whately

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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

—Clarence Day

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

—Jean Paul

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There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship.

—Lois Lowry in The Giver

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All I have to do is look around me to know time doesn't heal all wounds.

—Angela Pisel in With Love from the Inside

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