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Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."

- J.D. Salinger

Love

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

- J.D. Salinger

Love

"You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?"

- J.D. Salinger

Love

"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse."

- J.D. Salinger

Awareness

"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- J.D. Salinger

Adversity

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"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

Wisdom

"So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly."

Wisdom

"In old age is wisdom; understanding in a long life."

Wisdom

"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and receipts for all major purchases."

- Bridger Winegar

Wisdom

"Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

- Zimbabwean Proverb

Wisdom