Fetching wisdom...
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“The world is a dream, why wake up?
“For what is strength without a double share of wisdom?
“What is a country but an argument we must learn to live with?
“O human race, born to fly upward, why do you fall for a breath of wind?
“How can she reasonably love a Man who is always using his Power against her?
“Who is to blame? She who sins for pay or he who pays for sin?
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side if I am to be whole.
“Is this world of ours only a dream from which none of us ever wakes?
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves?
“What is a self, if not a story told in a borrowed tongue?
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.
“For what is the life of man, if it be not interwoven with the life of other men by the threads of reciprocal good‑will?
“Our ancestors never paid taxes to anyone, why should we pay to strangers?
“Am I a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man?
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
“Where now are cities, walls, and tower's pride?
“What is madness but another way of seeing, a mirror distorting a common reality?
“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?