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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill