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“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, lacking the knowledge I needed to live; when I think of how I sinned against my heart and my soul, then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness … Every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If youth only knew. Now my life will change, now I will be reborn.”
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“If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.”
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“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn’t it enough that you’ve done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That’s what they were made for.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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