“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― The Collected Poems
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― The Collected Poems
“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”
― Guilty Pleasures
― Guilty Pleasures
“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
― Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
― Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
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But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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