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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Moment
Moments
Cannot
Everything
Abstracts
Real
Expand
Time
Measured
Hold
Lying

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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
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It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
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It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.
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I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.
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Don't let your habits become handcuffs
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
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I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
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I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
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This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
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