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I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i. e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.

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Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

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Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

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It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

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To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

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I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.

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