"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
--Agatha Christie

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"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall."
-- Oscar Wilde

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"It will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet."
-- Emily Dickinson

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"A whisper of warmth fills the air, and i think how beautiful it is to feel the seasons changing upon our skin."
-- Luna Lynn

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"Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."
-- Charles Bukowski

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"When I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
-- Betty Smith

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
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"...For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

----The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

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"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."
--- J. R. R. Tolkien

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“Today I will walk in the sun. I will simply walk in the sun.”
– Charles Bukowski
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