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

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going. ― Hlovate

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Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation. - Theodor Herzl

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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ― Sarah Williams

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Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. ― Henry James

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ― Edgar Allan Poe

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

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