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“I couldn't leave, because far from this land I would have been like the trees they cut down at Christmas, those poor pines without roots that last a little while and then die.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Now that I have overcome so much pain and can read my destiny like a map full of errors, when I feel no pity for myself and can review my existence without sentimentality, because I have found relative peace, I only lament the loss of innocence. I miss the idealism of my youth, of the time when there was still a clear dividing line between good and evil for me and I believed that it was possible to always act in accordance with immovable principles.”
― Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan