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It’s as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so...
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of...
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely...
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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few...
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Light at the end of the tunnel We don’t even have a tunnel we...
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving...
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Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of...
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We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.