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“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written”
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“Oricât de mult am vrea să credem altcumva, iubirea universală şi bunăstarea tuturor speciilor laolaltă sunt, din punct de vedere evoluţionist, concepte fără sens.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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“8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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