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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Gustave Flaubert

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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