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"Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagination that we can catch him out."
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"Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is t…"
— Sri Aurobindo
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"othing is more terrible than a bed; since it is always waiting to be a death-bed."
— G. K. Chesterton
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