"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"

-- Gustave Flaubert

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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
“The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.”
“Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.”
“Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!”

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“She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.”
“Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.”
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
“News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising...”

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