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“No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.”
“If you have a personality, you’re a person.”
“Your life is not a tragedy. It’s history, and it’s yours.”
“Walk on, yes, but don’t walk away from people who need you.”
“You will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun.”
“There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.”
“The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.”
“The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot.”