“There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.”
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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