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Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.
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When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
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I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
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Born:
February 22, 1864
Died:
May 22, 1910
(aged 46)
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