“And now we turn to another blank page. A future standing before us like freshly fallen snow. Awaiting that first mark, that first step forward. A new journey to be started. A new promise to be fulfilled. A new page to be written. Go forth unto this waiting world with pen in hand, all you young scribes, the open book awaits. Be creative. Be adventurous. Be original. And above all else, be young. For youth is your greatest weapon, your greatest tool. Use it wisely.”
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“The past is preserved only in darkness, the future is not raised to the level of an image, as something which can be anticipated. It is the symbolic expression which first creates the possibility of looking backward and looking forward... What occurred in the past, now separated out from the totality of representations, no longer passes away, once the sounds of language have placed their seals on it and given it a certain stamp.”
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“Fate would not have the reputation it has, if it simply did what it seemed it would do.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“When we set out to change things, we don't pay enough attention to what we want to leave unchanged.”
― The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
― The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
“When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.”
― File No. 113
― File No. 113
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