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| Quote #1: | "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." |
| Quote #2: | "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." |
| Quote #3: | "Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street." |
| Quote #4: | "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government." |
| Quote #5: | "On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." |
| Quote #6: | "Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded." |
| Quote #7: | "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." |
| Quote #8: | "One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them." |
| Quote #9: | "One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph." |
| Quote #10: | "If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged." |
| Quote #11: | "The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." |
| Quote #12: | "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." |
| Quote #13: | "Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends." |
| Quote #14: | "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." |
| Quote #15: | "These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism." |
| Quote #16: | "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." |
| Quote #17: | "It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying." |
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