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“I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.”
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“Whenever hope and illusion become the source of the will to live, all knowledge of reality becomes highly threatening, since at any time a new piece of information might remove the grounds for this hope. This is exactly the case now. When life is motivated by hope for improvement, denial of reality is necessarily renewed and fortified.”
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“Cruising sailors are boat owners who like to do their repairs in foreign ports where the supplies they need are unavailable or excessively expensive.”
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“In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.”
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“Small talk is the biggest talk we do.”
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“... bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.”
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“flowers grow / out of the dark / moments.”
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“The next time you go shopping, demand more change.”