While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
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It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
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Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
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.. The lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
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Sometimes it's hard to believe what we are really.
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.. True evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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.. Insanity is never reasonable.
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This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.
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Saat memutuskan buat jatuh cinta, lo juga membuka kemungkinan cinta kelak akan berbalik nyakitin lo. - Good Fight
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You cannot always hide the pain in the laugh you fake.
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Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.
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Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever.
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