"The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier."

-- Horace Greeley

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“Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.”
“Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.”
“I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.”
“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.”
“I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.”
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
“Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.”
“If I was dead broke and had to feed my three children. I'd do anything.”

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