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| | Terror erodes its own events,
shadows having no more touch in time
than shadows, yet
there's no relief from that knowledge
—Robert Duncan |
| | The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
—Samuel Beckett |
| | One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
—Merle Shain |
| | To ravage, to kill, to steal under false pretenses they call empire; and then they make a desert and they call it peace.
—Tacitus |
| | The art of losing isn't hard to master
—Elizabeth Bishop |
| | Miracles are bloody, and sometimes come with blood sticking to them.
—Luis Alberto Urrea
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| | The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.
—Mary Elaine Jacobsen |
| | The vast majority of people want another life that lasts forever when they don't know what to do with the one they have.
—Anatole France |
| | The real choice is between furnace and labyrinth.
—Mike Davis |
| | Prophecy is many time the principal cause of the events foretold.
—Thomas Hobbes |
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