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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

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What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams...more

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Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

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The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see thi...more

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Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

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...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness o...more

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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. W...more

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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

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After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happ...more

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With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceab...more

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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely belie...more