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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

—Jules Renard

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Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

—Mickey Friedman

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

—Jeph Jacques

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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

—Theodore Parker

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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What you get free costs too much.

—Jean Anouilh

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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

—Miguel de Cervantes

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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

—Emily Dickinson

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Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

—Paul Tillich

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I don’t like to feel so crazy about someone. I don’t like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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There is always the need to carry on.

—Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

—Leo Buscaglia

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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

—Christopher Marlowe

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

—Thomas A. Edison

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