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Michel de Montaigne quote: "There were many terrible things in my life and most of them..."

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

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[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on. William James
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