Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live.

Sándor Márai's Popular Quotes

You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you…

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There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

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No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insi…

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It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong…

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Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

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One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

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I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when w…

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Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

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And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our…

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