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He will live to see them make him a national hero and he will die the only person thinking he had failed. That’s what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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