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“It’s a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.”
- Brad Pitt in an interview about Benjamin Button
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
—Beryl Markham
“A great life is born in the soul, grown in the mind, and lived from the heart.”
- Suzanne Willis Zoglio
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson