"I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life."
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"I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me."
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"I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works."
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"Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please."
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"The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience."
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"I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go"
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"The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world."
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"Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall."
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"The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery."
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"Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes."
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"There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt."
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"A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love."
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"My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything."
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"Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence."
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"I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all."
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"There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property."
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"5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!"
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"Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town."
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"The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness."
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"And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible."
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