“When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.” – Marlene Dietrich
"When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it." – Marlene Dietrich
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"Love is a given, hatred is acquired." – Doug Horton
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"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Love teaches even asses to dance" – French Proverb
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"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. <br/><br/>Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." – Bruce Lee
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"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." – Epictetus
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"A kind word warms a man throughout three winters." – Turkish Proverb
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"O excellent! I love long life better than figs." – William Shakespeare
“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” – William Shakespeare