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Serenad

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Top 10 Best Quotes

“One can only reach maturity through suffering.”

“Who knows what memories were sheltered in this old building. What dramas, what pleasures, what passions were remembered.”

“When does a girl stop growing up? At puberty? At eighteen? When she marries? When she gets her first white hair? Or does she never feel she’s grown up no matter how old she gets? Is she still filled with girlish dreams when she takes her last breath?”

“We can never move forward unless we see ourselves for what we are, until we accept that we still live with the vestiges of our most primitive reptilian ancestors.”

“The telephone makes the same sound every time it rings, but sometimes it seems to have a different quality.”

“Rich is rich, there’s no old or new about it!”

“Remember, knowledge that can be stolen from you was never yours in the first place.”

“It’s only when you’re in trouble that you find out who your true friends are.”

“In their world, the only way not to be oppressed is to be an oppressor.”

“In a sense, to exist is to change, and places that don't change become sad and stagnant...”

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