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And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.

Edmund Spenser

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Spenser, Edmund. "Julye." The Shepheardes Calender. London, 1579.

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Spenser, Edmund. "The Shepheardes Calender." The Shorter Poems, edited by Richard A. Mccabe. Penguin Classics, 2000.

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All's fair in love and war.

Frank E. Smedley

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Smedley, Francis Edward. Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil. London: A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1850, ch. 50.

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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-"Is this all?"

Betty Friedan

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Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 1.

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The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Youth and Love." Songs of Travel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a. M. Of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Joan Didion

On Keeping a Notebook

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Didion, Joan. "On Keeping a Notebook." Holiday, 1966.

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Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Neurotic's Notebook

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McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 5.

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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Chambered Nautilus

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "The Chambered Nautilus." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, Feb. 1858, st. 5.

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Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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Dick, Phillip. "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later." 1978, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, USA. Speech.

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins, Richard. "Snake Oil and Holy Water." Forbes ASAP, 4 Oct. 1999.

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For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Experience [Of Experience]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Experience." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Stewart Brand

How Buildings Learn

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Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Viking Press, 1994, ch. 3.

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The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

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Hans Carvel

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Prior, Matthew. Hans Carvel. c. 1700.

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What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

Building Dwelling Thinking

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Heidegger, Martin. "Bauen Wohnen Denken [Building Dwelling Thinking]." Darmstadt Symposium on Man and Space. 5 Aug. 1951, Darmstadt, Germany. Lecture.

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