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All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.
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There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
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The lesson of history is that no one learns.
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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
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Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
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No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.