For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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