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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?


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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.



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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.



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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.



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Never trust anyone under one hundred!



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Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.



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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.



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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.



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A love you always have to fight for isn't worth it



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Och, my potion is boiling. I need to say good night and keep an eye on the pot. Ye canna overboil newt's eyeballs.



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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.



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That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be.



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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?



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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.



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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.



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Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.



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American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.




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