"Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes."

-- Fernando Pessoa

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“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”
“You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.”
“One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.”

Source : "Francisco Franco : The Times and the Man" by Joaquin Arraras, (p. 159), 1938.
“The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.”
“The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.”
“There isnâ€™t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”
“Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.”
“Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered.”

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