We are the hero of our own story.

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In violence, we forget who we are.

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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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