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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!”
― Memoirs Of Rear-admiral John Paul Jones
― Memoirs Of Rear-admiral John Paul Jones
“I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.”
― The Cocktail Party
― The Cocktail Party
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
― A Life For A Life
― A Life For A Life
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