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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924

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Things happen in life that make us question our faith when perhaps they ought to make us question our life. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. – Roscoe Snowden

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Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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[T]he hours are even now never so full of gain as when I give them to the sky, the sea, the open wold. Why should we grudge Nature our heart? We might as well grudge it to the God who made the world. – Adeline Sergeant, The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr.

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