December 2010
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If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to...
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. Virtually everyone who has ever experienced grief mentions this phenomenon of “waves.” Erich Lindemann, who was chief of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1940’s and interviewed many...
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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vexed the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least,...
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I think if I had a different career, or if I had to start all over again,...
– Richard Branson
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