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Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them -… — Johnny Depp
We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other… — Paulo Coelho
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or… — Edmund Burke
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man. — Michel de Montaigne
Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't… — Suzanne Brockmann
There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen IslanzadÃ, and… — Christopher Paolini
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what Iâ€™m doing is judging natural events in such… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donâ€™t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you… — Joseph Campbell
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make… — Tim Burton
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they… — James M. Barrie
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,… — Wilkie Collins
but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took… — Nicholas Sparks
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and… — Terry Pratchett
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the… — Emily Giffin
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of… — Philip K. Dick
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even… — Tanith Lee
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One… — Karen Russell

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