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“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.”
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who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.”
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
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and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
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“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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