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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

—Kahlil Gibran

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I like storms. Thunder, torrential rain, puddles, wet shoes. When the clouds roll in, I get filled with this giddy expectation. Everything is more beautiful in the rain.

—Penelope Douglas in Bully

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Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

—Jodi Picoult in Sing You Home

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Sometimes when you love someone, the best thing you can do is keep them in the dark. Loving someone doesn't always mean telling them everything. It means knowing when it's best to keep your mouth shut and when it's best to open it.

—J.S. Cooper in The Other Side of Love

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He slid his arms up around me, and as he kissed me back, I felt something inside me open, like a new life beginning. I didn't know yet what girl she'd be, or where this life would take her. But I'd keep my eyes open, and when the time came, I would know.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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The universe owes you nothing. It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is to do something worth remembrance.

—Amie Kaufman in Illuminae

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I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

—Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

—Voltaire

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce

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Who covets more is evermore a slave.

—Robert Herrick

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