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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

—Jean Cocteau

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Disappointment is part of life. Just like change.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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Man does not live by bread alone.

—Moses

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Man does not live by bread alone, but he also does not live long without it.

—Frederick Buechner

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

—Woody Allen

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Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can’t remember? The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn’t bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

—Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

—Ian Fleming

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Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

—Charles M. Schulz

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Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

—Benjamin Jowett

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It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

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Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.

—Kathryn Vance-Perez in Love and Truth

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I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life.

—Julianne Donaldson in Edenbrooke

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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

—Saint Teresa of Avila

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