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What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams...more

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Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

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Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but d...more

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The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

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...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness o...more

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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. W...more

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beaut...more

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With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceab...more

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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely belie...more

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She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influ...more