When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. - Stieg Larsson

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What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.

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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ― Robert Frost

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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

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