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"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
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"I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights."
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"The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt."
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"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
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"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
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