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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
“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
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― 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
“Do not seek after truth. Merely cease to hold opinions.”
― The World's Religions, Revised and Updated
― The World's Religions, Revised and Updated
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