"That I be not as those are..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
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“After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.”
“The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.”
“Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.”