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“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.” quote by Zadie Smith — Download Open image

“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.”

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

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