Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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