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P.D. James
“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. ”
P.D. James, The Children of Men

T.S. Eliot
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.”
T.S. Eliot

William Faulkner
“...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Marilyn Monroe
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Marilyn Monroe

“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”
Harry M. Collins, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology

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