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“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.” quote by Thornton Wilder — Download Open image

“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.”

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.”

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“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation to move toward philosophical principles. Men of his type so dread all deliberation that they glory in the practice of the instantaneous decision. They think…

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