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We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. – Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939

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There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. – Dion Boucicault

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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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