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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

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It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

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Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.

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Life was a pre-death experience.

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Do it from the heart or not at all.

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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

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Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

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In this life, you have to be your own hero.

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