"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

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“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

“Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

“I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.”

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