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“stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.” Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
“it is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?” Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
“Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame (that is: morally) at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for.” Albert Camus, The Stranger
“You never realize how much you've changed until after it's happened.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

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