Living In this society, a man can go through his whole life without finding out whether he is a coward. I think he should know. —John Berryman The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. —Charles DuBois, Did you think you should enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? —The Koran Adventurous men enjoy mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, ‘So this is what an earthquake is like’, and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item. —Bertrand Russell At eighteen, our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty, they are caves in which we
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