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"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
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"In quietness we find inner peace."
"You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together."
"Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go."
"To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart."
"Peace is a process of self-realization, a realization that peace resides inside us, in our inner calmness and tranquility."
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"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"
"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."
"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."
"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
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