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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
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But when my seven long years are out, O, then I'll marry Sally; O, then we'll wed, and then we'll bed— But not in our alley!
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
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Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
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The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
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Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round
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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a l...
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It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said. And how fast it comes! Why I do believe it's got wings!
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My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important point, you k...
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