“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
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“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
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