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Life is too important to be taken seriously. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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To be alive──is Power. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. ↗

— Voltaire

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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#nightmares #shadows #life

Tea is the elixir of life. ↗

— Eisai

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I had always wanted to go down that path at some point, I just hadn’t met anyone to go down it with. which begged another question: why hadn’t I? What was wrong with me? Oh yes, I knew exactly what I was crying about. It was the fear of being a last resort. Of missing out. And not just on one Saturday night of partying with people I didn’t know. On life. The life that everyone else seemed to find so easy to have. ↗

— Carrie Adams

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The river is everywhere. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #omnipresence #river #life

You came from different starts and you’ll come to different ends. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #lena #life #life

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

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