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“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
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“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
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“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
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“There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.”
― Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
― Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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