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“Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances”
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“Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.”
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“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side†of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?”
Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2011). “Letters From Home”, p.572, Kensington Publishing Corp.
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“I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'”
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“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179
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“The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.”
Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
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“For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
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“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”
