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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

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Smith, Alexander. "Of Death and the Fear of Dying." Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country. London: Strahan & Co., 1863.

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Babel, Isaac. Quoted in "Hide and Seek: The Complete Isaac Babel." Written by John Updike. The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2001.

One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

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Mordaunt, Thomas Osbert. "A Poem, said to be written by Major Mordaunt during the last German War. Never before published." The Bee, 12 Oct. 1791.

For when this song is sung and past,
My lute, be still, for I have done.

Thomas Wyatt

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Wyatt, Thomas. "The Lute Awake, or The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love." Songes and Sonettes Written By the Ryght Honorable Lord Henry Howard, late Earle of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt the Elder and others. London: Richard Tottel, 1557.

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Wyatt, Thomas. "My Lute, Awake! or The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of his Love." Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others, edited by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul. Penguin Classics, 2012.

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Russell, Bertrand. "No Funk, No Frivolity, No Fanaticism." New York Times, 6 May 1951, sec. SM, p. 4.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 26. Routledge, 2020, pt. 1.

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James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." Longman's Magazine. London: C. J. Longman, 4 Sept. 1884.

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James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." The Portable Henry James. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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The Great Escape. Directed by John Sturges, The Mirisch Company, 1963.

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Buchanan, James. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1857, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Twelfth Night." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Updike, John. "Notes of a Temporary Resident." The Listener. c. 1969.

I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God.

Mary Butts

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Butts, Mary. The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns. London: Metheun & Co., 1937.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Olivia at the Lyceum." Dramatic Review, 30 May 1885.

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Einstein, Albert. "On Intellectual Freedom, 18 November 1954." Einstein on Politics, edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. Princeton University Press, 2007, ch. 10. Originally from Letter to the editor published in The Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954.

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Rushdie, Salman. "Is Nothing Sacred?" Presented by Harold Pinter. 6 Feb. 1990, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 25.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 25.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.

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James, Henry. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton. 4 Feb. 1872.

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James, Henry. Henry James: A Life in Letters, edited by Philip Horne. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Brittain, Vera. The Rebel Passion. Fellowship Publications/Allen & Unwin, 1964.

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Buffett, Warren. Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders. c. 1989.

You will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't.

Lorenzo Dow

Reflections on the Love of God

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Dow, Lorenzo. The Dealings of God, Man and the Devil, as Exemplified in the Life, Experience and Travels of Lorenzo Dow. Norwich: W. Faukner, 1833.