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In A Few More Days I'd Anticipated Telling Veronika That Our Injections Had Cured Her Heart Condition. But In Light Of Her Unscheduled Departure Form Villette My Telling That Particular Lie Will Not Be Required. The Majority Of People Who Attempt Suicide Repeat That Attempt Until They Succeed. I Took A Risk In Lying To Her About Her Condition, I Decided To Test The Only Remedy I Have Come To Have Any Faith In: Awareness Of Life. Until She Finds Out From Some Other Doctor That She Is Perfectly Healthy. She'll Consider Each Day A Miracle. Which In My View It Is.

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In A Few More Days I'd Anticipated Telling Veronika That Our Injections Had Cured Her Heart Condition. But In Light Of Her Unscheduled Departure Form Villette My Telling That Particular Lie Will Not Be Required. The Majority Of People Who Attempt Suicide Repeat That Attempt Until They Succeed. I Took A Risk In Lying To Her About Her Condition, I Decided To Test The Only Remedy I Have Come To Have Any Faith In: Awareness Of Life. Until She Finds Out From Some Other Doctor That She Is Perfectly Healthy. She'll Consider Each Day A Miracle. Which In My View It Is.

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Dreams Are Letters From The Book Your Life Is Writing.

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A Brush With Death Always Helps Us To Live Our Lives Better.

Make Whatever Decision You Wish But Never Forget One Thing: All Of You Are Much Better Than You Believed. Take Advantage Of The Chance That Tragedy Has Given You; Not Everyone Is Capable Of Doing So

Know How To Get Close To It: Mountains Are Often Seen From Far Off - Beautiful, Interesting, Full Of Challenges. But What Happens When We Try To Draw Closer? Roads Run All Around Them, Flowers Grow Between You And Your Objective, What Seemed So Clear On The Map Is Tough In Real Life. So Try All The Paths And All The Tracks Until Eventually One Day You're Standing In Front Of The Top That You Yearn To Reach.

Success Is Falling Down 7 Times But Getting Up 8!

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However Happy People Say They Are, Nobody Is Satisfied: We Always Have To Be With The Prettiest Woman, Buy A Bigger House, Change Cars, Desire What We Do Not Have.

How Many Of Us Will Be Saved The Pain Of Seeing The Most Important Things In Our Lives Disappearing From One Moment To The Next? I Don't Just Mean People, But Our Ideas And Dreams Too: We Might Survive A Day, A Week, A Few Years, But We're All Condemned To Lose. Our Body Remains Alive, Yet Sooner Or Later Our Soul Will Receive The Mortal Blow. The Perfect Crime - For We Don't Know Who Murdered Our Joy, What Their Motives Were, Or Where The Guilty Parties Are To Be Found...they Too Are The Victims Of The Reality They Created.

I Have Been Told That Beauty Is The Great Seducer Of Men.

Respect Those Who Grew Up And Learned Alongside You. Respect Those Who Taught You.

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Beware Of Making A Woman Cry. God Is Counting Her Tears.

When You Close That Door To Nowhere Throw Away The Key, We Have A Tendency To Look Back And Regret

I Don't Make Plans. I Live My Life On A Daily Basis.

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