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01c. 1958 AD

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Mitch Albom / quote

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02c. 1958 AD

It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.

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03c. 1958 AD

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

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04c. 1958 AD

What was the constant?Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. Thependulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flowof time completely …

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05c. 1958 AD

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.

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06c. 1958 AD

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

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07c. 1958 AD

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

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08c. 1958 AD

Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.

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09c. 1958 AD

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

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10c. 1958 AD

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

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11c. 1958 AD

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.

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12c. 1958 AD

Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't.

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13c. 1958 AD

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

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14c. 1958 AD

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

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15c. 1958 AD

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No.

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16c. 1958 AD

If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

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17c. 1958 AD

.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.

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18c. 1958 AD

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

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19c. 1958 AD

Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

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20c. 1958 AD

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

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21c. 1958 AD

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

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22c. 1958 AD

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.

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23c. 1958 AD

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

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24c. 1958 AD

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

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