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“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain“Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig““A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.””
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?”
To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf““Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! / One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; / One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; / The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam