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"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."
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"It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions."
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"Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy."
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