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• It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past…
• Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
• There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
• I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the…
• I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the…
• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the…
• It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the…
• I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of…
• Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the…
• The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I…
• Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
• The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent…

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