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"Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem."
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"I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class"

"You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world."

"In the equation of life, the limit does not exist."

"When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children"

"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness."

"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."

"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."

"Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond compensation"

"The choices I didn't make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
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