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Anthony Burgess

"Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance."

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"Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance."

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"I can resist everything but love."

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"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."

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"Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg."

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"The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations."

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