"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere."
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"Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along."
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"[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war."
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"We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky."
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"At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups."
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"And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death."
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"It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning."
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"A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end."
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"The only danger in Friendship is that it will end."
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"You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't."
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"To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality."
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"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."
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"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."
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"What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed."
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"You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave."
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"It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends."
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"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
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"Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria."
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"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
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"Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself."
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