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We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. - John

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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May you get what you wish for. – Old Chinese curse

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Difficulties were opportunities inside out, she assured herself… – Gwen Davis, Marriage, 1981

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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse. – William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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