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One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts–they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
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