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“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”
“Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.”
“The brave don't live forever but the cautious don't live at all. The only thing that's truly terrifying is the unlived life.”
“In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.”
“«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. " (p.330)”
“Is there such a thing as a life without any regrets? I’ve never believed so. We spend our lives aiming for happiness and fulfilment in work, in love and with our friends and family, and yet often o...”
“Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”
“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you m...”
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.”
“I've been famous my entire life I don't know any other way.”
“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subve...”
“One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.”
“Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.”
“Good taste is death vulgarity is life.”
“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your ...”