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All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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A short saying often contains much wisdom. ↗

— Sophocles

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Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. ↗

— Arthur Young

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I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. 'The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured your heart may no longer be able to contain it. ↗

— Susan E. Isaacs

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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