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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Vikram Seth

You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Difference Let Go Life Love Myself Relationship
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Action Myself Thinking Worth
The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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Change Damage Hope Past
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Beyond Couple End Eyes Light Wake Up
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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Hands Love Night Oneself Right Sleep Tears Yourself
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Goodness Myself Nature Person Thinking World

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