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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself ac

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. – Jean Toomer

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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. – Jean De La Bruyere

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We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. – St. Catherine of Genoa

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Oh, the secret life of man and woman –dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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