"Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever."
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"It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed)."
"Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are."
"At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever."
"Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever."
"Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars."
"Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever."
"It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever."
"I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?"
"The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring."
"It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head."
"You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future."
"Best friends are forever. That's why they're called BFFs."
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception."
"I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. ... Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever."
"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever."
"The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever."
"We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever."
"There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer."