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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteAll emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteNo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger

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