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Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
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I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
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To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.
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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.
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We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
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It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.
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