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“Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.”
“You can’t be criticized for what you don’t try. You can’t lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW.”
“It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.”
“There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.”
“Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilaratingin the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon ...”
“Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.”
“Most of the times, we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come ...”
“We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.”
“Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.”
“Every morning is a reason to begin living again… in case if you have had a good sleep. If not, then begin living again, anyway, and take care of yourself!”
“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”
“...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...”
“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.”
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing...”
“Poppy said. “Because I was always telling him, ‘Look,’ I said. ‘Face it,’ I said. ‘There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can...”
