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- Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste…
- The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
- We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.
- We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,…
- I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt