“You have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness…” - Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare

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“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” - Emily Dickenson

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“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens

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

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“It take great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.” - Oscar Wilde

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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?” - Jane Austen

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“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.” - The Illiad, Homer

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“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” - East of Eden, John Steinbeck

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“Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.” - Virginia Woolf

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“I exist. In a thousand agonies, I exist.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do, or fail to do.” - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

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“Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you have inside you.” - Shadow of the Wind, Carol Ruiz Zafón

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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams—this may be madness.” - Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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