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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.


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GARY F EVANS... You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
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GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
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DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
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Not only do you learn in the journey ...
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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JOHN H. GROBERG I am blessed.
I am beautiful.
I am great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life is the gift, itself. And any other additions, are the blessings!
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“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
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The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
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