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“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril”. –Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe”. –Roger Zelazny

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London