Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories. . . they're the … - Rohinton Mistry

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Rohinton Mistry

Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories. . . they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

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. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

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. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

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What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

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