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“You can’t let buffoons rule your life.”

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

“I do not think the impression was very important at the moment, but it soon became important in memory. As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother’s toy garden.”

“There was little my mother or I could do about our plight. We were not slaves. But neither were we free.”

“Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”

“We were both very happy, and lived happy, happy ever after.”

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t. I just watched. Paralyzed.”

“The symbol of an ancient man’ s thought becomes a modern man’ s speech.”

“So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he’s doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”