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"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
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"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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