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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
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“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
― The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.
'Where do bad Americans go?'
'They stay in America'.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
'Where do bad Americans go?'
'They stay in America'.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
― A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
― A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
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