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“If thou would estimate thyself, put away wealth, land, honors; scrutinize thyself within.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“ Literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Often while playing, playing good, inoffensive, permissible games, I became too excited and violent for my sisters to put up with; this led to arguments and unhappiness, and when anger overcame me at such times, I was a terror, doing and saying things whose vileness I felt deeply and painfully at the very moment I did and said them. Then came vexing, dark hours of regret and contrition, and then the awful moment when I asked to be forgiven”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“I should think that for one who has tasted the joys of creation, no other pleasure could exist.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov