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Altogether it was an impressive scene, with its utter loneliness, its bizarre suggestion; and as I gazed, long and curiously, a singular emotion began to stir somewhere in the depths of me. Midway in my delight of the wild beauty, there
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“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
― Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
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