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Paul Bowles
“How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Guy de Maupassant
“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”
Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

Niccolò Machiavelli
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Georges Duhamel
“sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
Georges Duhamel

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