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"For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."
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"How can the truth make anything worse?"
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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
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"If I am destined to be happy with you here-how short is the longest Life-I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you for ever."
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
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