"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die."
"Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go."
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Source: Nasdaq 100-Open. Interview with Bud Collins, Butch Buchholz, www.asapsports.com. March 31, 2006.
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