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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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Norman Douglas
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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? – David Brin

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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. – B. Alan Wallace

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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson

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