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“Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
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“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
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“To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.”
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“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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