Per Adua Ad Astra

phone rang at 6:15 in the morning and my dad and my brother hadn’t even left for work yet. I knew what the call was gonna be.

no one needs to worry. I am fine. I’m not particularly sad. that sounds callous, but if I spoke to my grandparents twice in a calendar year, it was a good year. I am sad for my dad and my aunt and my uncle, but I myself am fine.

1. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” 

2. “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” 

3. “True friends stab you in the front.” 

4. “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” 

5. “My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” 

6. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 

7. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” 

8. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” 

9. “I can resist anything except temptation.” 

10. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing!” 

11. “Memory is the diary that we all carry with us.” 

12. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” 

13. “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” 

14. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known.” 

15. “I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” 

16. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” 

17. “I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying.” 

18. “I can never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the _____.” 

19. “You can never be overdressed or over-educated.”

20. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” 

21. “If one cannot enjoying reading a book over and over again, there is no point in reading it at all.” 

22. “I don’t want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there.” 

23. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” 

24. “The heart was made to be broken.” 

25. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” 

26. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” 

27. “Who, being loved, is poor?” 

28. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.” 

29. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” 

30. “Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.” 

31. “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” 

32. “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.” 

33. “To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” 

34. “The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” 

35. “Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.” 

36. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” 

37. “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” 

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