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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

—Aldous Huxley

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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

—Albert Camus

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“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.

—P.C. Cast in Hunted

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Ultimately love is everything.

—M. Scott Peck

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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

—Hermann Hesse

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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

—Jane Wagner

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

—Anna Godbersen in Bright Young Things

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Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

—Shelley Winters

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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

—Paul Valéry

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

—Jonathan Swift

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

—Saki

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

—Ray Bradbury

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—Joseph Conrad

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