Quote #76

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

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  3. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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  8. We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

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