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• Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
• Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is…
• This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you…
• Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
• It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral…
• Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that…
• I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply…
• All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw…
• Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful…
• We are all born equally far from the sun.
• Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed…
• It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

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