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Posted by: Rossella Porro
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On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive, active and, sometimes, aglow with joy. With this was bound up his need for loneliness and independence. There was never a man with a deeper and more passionate craving for independence than he. In his youth when he was poor and had difficulty in earning his bread, he preferred to go hungry and in torn clothes rather than endanger his narrow limit of independence. He never sold himself for money or an easy life or to women or to those in power; and had thrown away a hundred times what in the world's eyes was his advantage and happiness in order to safeguard his liberty. [...] In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate. The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. He achieved his aim. He was ever more independent. He took orders from no man and ordered his ways to suit no man. Independently and alone, he decided what to do and to leave undone. For every strong man attains to that which a genuine impulse bids him seek. But in the midst of the freedom he had attained Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that he stood alone.
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    Posted by: Mela Favale
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    You know what mistake is constantly made? That of believing that life can't be changed, that once taken a track you must follow it through to the end. Fate is more creative than that. Just when you think you're in a dead-end situation, when you reach a peak of desperation, with the speed of a gust of wind everything changes, it's overwhelmed, and from a moment to the next you find yourself in the middle of a new life.
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      Posted by: *Sweet Melly*
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      Love life as it is
      love it fully, without expectations.
      Love it when they love you or hate you.
      Love it when no one understands you,
      or when everyone understands you.
      Love it when everyone abandones you,
      or when they exalt you like a king.
      Love it when they steal everything from you,
      or when they give it.
      Love it when it makes sense
      or when it seems to have none at all.
      Love it in the fullest of joy,
      or in complete solitude.
      Love it whe you're strong,
      or when you feel weak.
      Love it when you're afraid,
      or when you've tons of courage.
      Love it not only for the great pleasures
      and enormous satisfactions;
      love it for the small joys.
      Love it even if doesn't give you what it could,
      love it if it's not as you want it.
      Love it everytime you're born
      and everytime you're about to die.
      Never love without love.
      Never live without life!
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