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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.

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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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Realizing Suffering World
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Artist Imagination Secret
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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Law Police World
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.

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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.

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