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Life was beautiful, beautiful and fleeting as happiness. Youth was beautiful and wilted fast.

“I don’t know yet what I shall do,’ he said. ‘Perhaps I shall stay here. I want to work. I want to be active. It’s time I had some object in front of me. And if I can’t find one, I’ll invent one. I can’t go on like this.’ ‘People never worried about such things in my time,’ she said. ‘Then a man’s aim was to make money and marry and have children.’ ‘Perhaps I shall get used to that,’ he said. ‘What’s that phrase of yours?’ She stopped work. ‘Man is a creature of habit,’ she said emphatically.”
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“I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am ”
― Inscriptions
― Inscriptions

“… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
― Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph
― Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph

“两个人互相对视了一阵,他终于木然走到她身边,张了张嘴唇,想对她说些什么。但是他掏出今天新发布的健康词汇列表,发现上面是一片空白——终于连最后一个词组也被有关部门屏蔽了。”
― 寂静之城
― 寂静之城

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