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Robert Randell
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“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
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“The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“God save us from people who mean well.”
― A Suitable Boy
― A Suitable Boy
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
“The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.”
― Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
― Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
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