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Thus our two questions may be re-stated as follows: (1) Is there any such thing as matter? (2) If so, what is its nature?
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“flag tied to the end of a long lodgepole and was standing in front of his lodge, holding the pole, with the flag fluttering in the gray light of the winter dawn. I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from two sides of the camp.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“I'm a cynical idealist.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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