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"[This person] who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
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I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone."

- "Red" from The Shawshank Redemption

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"What is this self I think I will lose if I leave what I know."

- Joanne Kyger

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"There is really nothing you must be,
And there is nothing you must do.
There is really nothing you must have,
And there is nothing you must know.

There is nothing you must become.

However,
It helps to understand that fire burns,
And when it rains the earth gets wet."

- Author Unknown

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Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.

—Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyrus, 1005, 4.9–14