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Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. Harper & Brothers, 1956, ch. 2.

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McEwan, Ian. Commencement address. Commencement ceremony. 17 May 2015, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA.

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Pope John Paul II. Quoted in His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, written by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. Doubleday, 1996.

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Clarke, Arthur C. Quoted in "Hands Up for the Gaia Hypothesis." Written by James E. Lovelock. Nature Journal, 8 Mar. 1990.

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Roddick, Anita. Body and Soul: Profits with Principles, the Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop. Crown, 1991, ch. 1.

Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light.

Eugenio Montale

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Montale, Eugenio. "Portami il girasole [Bring me the sunflower]." Ossi di seppia [Cuttlefish Bones]. c. 1925.

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Montale, Eugenio. "Bring me the sunflower." Montale: Poems, translated by Jonathan Galassi. Everyman's Library, 2020.

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 13.

To be heir to the throne is not a position; it is a predicament.

Alan Bennett

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Bennett, Alan. The Madness of George III. 28 Nov. 1991, Lyttelton Theatre of the National Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2.

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Rodin, Auguste. Interviewed by Paul Gsell. La Revenue, 1910.

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Rodin, Auguste. Quoted in Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell, written by Paul Gsell. University of California Press, 1984.

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Mantel, Hilary. Quoted in "The Art of Fiction No. 226." Interviewed by Mona Simpson. Paris Review, no. 212, Spring 2015, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel.

The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.

Gustav Mahler

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Mahler, Gustav. Quoted in Jean Sibelius: His Life and Personality, written by Karl Ekman. Alan Wilmer, 1936.

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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Eisenstaedt, Alfred. "Obituary." Life Magazine, 24 Aug. 1995.

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Heine, Heinrich. "De l'Allemagne depuis Luther [Germany after Luther]." Revue des deux Mondes, Dec. 1834.

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Heine, Heinrich. "On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany." On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings, translated by Howard Pollack-Milgate, edited by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

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Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 1.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.

Antoine Lavoisier

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Lavoisier, Antoine. Elements of Chemistry, in a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries, translated by Robert Kerr. William Creech, 1790.

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Lavoisier, Antoine. Elements of Chemistry, translated by Robert Kerr. Dover Publications, 1965.

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Schumacher, E. F. "Small is Beautiful." The Radical Humanist, Aug. 1973, vol. 37, no. 5.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard III. London: Andrew Wise, 1597, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Third." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.