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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet