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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them-the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "One of the Family." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 1.

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The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer

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Wittier, John Greenleaf. A Dream of Summer. c. 1847, st. 4.

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A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

Archibald MacLeish

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1926.

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." From Collected Poems 1917 to 1982. Mariner Books, 1985.

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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Marcel Proust

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Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Hebrews 11:1).

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When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "A Pledge of Allegiance." I Am An American Day. 20 May 1945, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

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God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.

Elie Wiesel

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Spoken at Auschwitz.

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Wiesel, Elie. The Times. 27 Jan. 1995.

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Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Samuel Adams

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Adams, Samuel. "American Independence." 1 Aug. 1776, State House, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Speech.

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I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "I Know I Am But Summer." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine
To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 204.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 204.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to Ellen Terry. 28 Aug. 1896.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. c. 1816.

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Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 41.

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How you feel about your family is a complicated thing. Deep down, you'll always love them. But you can forget that you love them, and you can hurt them and they can hurt you, and that's not just because you're young.

Home Alone

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

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Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. "Sententious Song." Jonah. Holywell Press, 1917.

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What must I do to be saved?

Acts 16:30

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 16:30).

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It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities—we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.

12 Angry Men

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

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Cocteau, Jean. Opium, Journal d'une Desintoxication [Opium: Diary of a Cure]. Librairie Stock, 1930.

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