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"People unsatisfied with themselves and their own labor might seethe in rage and jealousy at another person's happiness." — Apr 02, 2016 08:09PM
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"A great deal of genius is wasted away building bombs." — Jan 29, 2016 08:55PM
"A great deal of genius is wasted away building bombs." — Jan 29, 2016 08:55PM
“Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.”
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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
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“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
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