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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last."

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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
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"Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming."

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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"If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui."

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