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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Guy de Maupassant

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Guy de Maupassant

Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Guy de Maupassant

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Guy de Maupassant

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

Guy de Maupassant

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy de Maupassant

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Rather be dead than cool.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

Hands, do what you’re bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

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