To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse
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- As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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