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• To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat…
• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone…
• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence…
• An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
• The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense…
• The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one…
• We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;…
• There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
• All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the…
• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept…
• If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands.…

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