Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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