"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
-Edith Wharton
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"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.“
-Edith Wharton
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
-Jack Lemon
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
-Robert Fulghum
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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