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• I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
• The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
• Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
• There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
• I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
• Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…

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