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With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what’s been taught and what’s been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of
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“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
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“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
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“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.”
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