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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Bacon’s not the only thing that’s cured by hanging from a string.