To be alive at all is to have scars.
~ John Steinbeck
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
~ John Steinbeck
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Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
~ Milan Kundera
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
~ Iain Banks
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
~ A. J. Liebling
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