“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
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“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
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“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”
― The Glass Bees
― The Glass Bees
“The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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