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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."

"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."

"When we are not sure we are alive."

"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."

"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."

"An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin - lined, diamond - studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison"

"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens."

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."

"Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do."

"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."

"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."
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