Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
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Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
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Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
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Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.
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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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