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I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Integrity, Significance

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.142, Jazzybee Verlag

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Haruki Murakami

Writing, Sheep, Significance

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

George Parsons Lathrop

Realism, Worthy, Significance

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

Edwin Land

Building, Significance, International

"Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" by Victor K. McElheny, (p. 198), 1998.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

Dylan Lauren

Significance

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Douglas Adams

Successful, Reason, Significance

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Diane Johnson

May, Novel, Significance

It seems to me that oftentimes in young relationships once there's a problem of some significance then it's almost like they're both racing for the dumper buzzer.

Daniel Handler

Racing, Problem, Significance

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