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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

© James Baldwin

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

© George Orwell

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

© Oprah Winfrey

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

© George Washington

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

© Mark Twain

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

© Oscar Wilde

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

© Ernest Hemingway
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The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

© James Baldwin

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

© Mark Twain

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

© Gautama Buddha