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The longest journey of any person is the journey inward
The low brow and the high brow
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B
The only completely consistent people are the dead
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it
The worst thing about reading new books...
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
There is no science without fancy and no art without fact
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves
They say that in the end truth will triumph, but it's a lie.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child
To win without risk is to triumph without glory
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth...
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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