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“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
― Harry Crews

“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

“You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that could happen.

Then they stay dead.”
― Donald Hall

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
― Laurence Sterne

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“Viver é como escrever sem corrigir.”
― António Lobo Antunes

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
― Albert Ellis

“Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
― Robert James Waller

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

“Today I will seek to love others not as I want them to be but as they really are.”
― Christopher Burn, Poetry Changes Lives: Daily Thoughts on Poetry and History

“If you can’t come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power

“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”
― Anne Tyler, The Beginner's Goodbye

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , The Leopard

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“We can’t reach old age by another man’s road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca

“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”
― Robert Browning

“And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

“If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.”
― Anton Chekhov, Notebook of Anton Chekhov

“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
― Anton Chekhov

“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy