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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for

-George Washington Burnap

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Am I capable of what I dream?

If I am not capable of it, what good is there to dream?

-Albert Camus, “Notebooks: (1951-1959)”

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Life is a fire

We dance in it, magical salamanders

What does it matter that only ashes remain

When the fire was beautiful and tall?

Among the crumbling embers

Let us sing the song of fire!

Let us sing the song of life

Consumed in its own light...

-Mário Quintana, “Inscription for a Fireplace”

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Michael Corleone: What’s the matter? What’s bothering you? I’ll handle it. I told you I can handle it, I’ll handle it.

Don Vito Corleone: I knew Santino was going to have to go through all this and Fredo… well, Fredo was… But I…I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life–I don’t apologize–to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That’s my life; I don’t apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings: Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone, something.

Michael: Another pezzonovante.

Don Corleone: Well, there wasn’t enough time, Michael. There just wasn’t enough time.

Michael: We’ll get there, Pop. We’ll get there.

-”The Godfather”

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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For a beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it every day. For poise, walk knowing you will never walk alone.

-Audrey Hephburn

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within

-James Baldwin

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone

-Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are

-e.e. cummings

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When we hang the Capitalists they will sell us the rope we use

-Josef Stalin

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It is difficult to liberate fools from the chains they revere

-Voltaire

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The Martyr dies and his rule begins.

-Søren Kierkegaard

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Man hands on misery to man

It deepens like a coastal shelf

Get out as early as you can

And don't have kids yourself.

-Phillip Larkin, This Be the Verse

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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

-Diogenes