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“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
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“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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