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“Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression . . . that gives reality to things.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.” Epictetus, Discourses

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Chronicles, Volume One (1)
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1)
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