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live life, no regrets

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

—Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via bookmania)

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about them.

—Lisa Kleypas  (via blua)

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“The bar was in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and causal innuendo and introductions forgotten at the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.”

Summer 2013. Goddamn, I can’t wait that long…

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