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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliv

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver

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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver

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alone
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Mary Oliver
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. – Mary Oliver

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You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. – S.A. Sachs

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo

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Beware of a man of one book. – English Proverb

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