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The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.


Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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NICHOLAS SPARKS True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then...
NICHOLAS SPARKS People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th...
NICHOLAS KLEIN You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
NICHOLAS SPARKS avoid you. I want to avoid you.” He stared at her, plainly confused.
NICHOLAS SPARKS her jeans and sleeveless blouse.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume.
Quando usado no jardim, servi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few
NICHOLAS SPARKS additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta...
NICHOLAS SPARKS But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS - You've been through a lot in your life.
- Too much, I sometimes think.
- But you keep go...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her.
NICHOLAS SPARKS These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most peopl...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
NICHOLAS SPARKS It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any oth...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
NICHOLAS SPARKS For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS