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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.”
― Aforismi. Volume primo.
― Aforismi. Volume primo.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.sm”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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