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“Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.”
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“Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!”
Source : "As 30 melhores entrevistas da Playboy: agosto 1975-agosto 2005" by Luiz Rivoiro, (p. 132), 2005.
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“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.”
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“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
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“I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.”
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“I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)”
Source : Sapardi Djoko Damono, “I Want”
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“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press
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“Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.”
