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Jacqueline du Pre quote: "Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place."

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre. Billy Wilder
Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. Now, no one will live this fate, knowing it to be absurd, unless he does everything to keep before him... Albert Camus
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The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests. Stephen Hadley
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream. J. C. Watts
Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me. Shaquille O'Neal
When, on your dangerous mission gone, You underrate our foes as dunces, Be wary, not of sudden gun, But of your partner at the dances. Stanley Kunitz
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Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it. Gordon B. Hinckley
Solomon Burke quote: "I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive."
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive. Solomon Burke
That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. Henry David Thoreau
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