“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
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“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
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“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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