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“I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too”
― Letter to His Father
― Letter to His Father
“To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare -- where others lack the courage-- to plunge again into the elemental.”
― Doctor Faustus
― Doctor Faustus
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“Her father called her ‘Little Tranquillity’, and the name suited her excellently; for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
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