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Thornton Wilder

"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests."

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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"Sand by the seashore is inestimable."

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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
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"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
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"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."
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"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."
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