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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. - Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius
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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Immortality
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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The world is a sunny success. – Terri Guillemets

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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. – Franz Liszt

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A setting sun still whispers a promise for tomorrow. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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