The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
("The Fault in Our Stars")
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All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
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