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“We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.”

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Evan Esar, an American humorist, was born in 1899 and passed away in 1995. He is renowned for his unique sense of humor and extensive cultural influence. more

“But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—”

People Knows Should Looks Said Real Dream Remember Moving Speak Forget Fire Happened Goes On Draws Happenings Dinner Finished Awake Look At Me

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.”

Moments Night Turns Realizing Tradition Guides Indian Maps Halfway

Book:The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.”

People Kind Hard Hard Work Type Office Bones Nurse Hug Idle Competent Continuum Apathetic

Author:Jo Brand

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

Men Made Soul Young Wish Difficult Consciousness Knowing Tasks Gentleman Difficult Tasks Young Gentlemen

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”

Thinking Men Kind Fall Girl Poor Love You Fellows Falling In Love Vanity Nonsensical Supposition

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“We read to know that we are not alone.”

Knows Book Reading Reading Books Not Alone

Author:William Nicholson

“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”

People Feels Heart Said Realizing Rooms My Heart Sorrow Crowds Midst Betray Flash Cholera Piers

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.”

World Important Left Responsibility Mines Revolution Intention

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness

“You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose”

Winning Loses Not Afraid Can't Win

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

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