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January 04, 2019
Creation.
There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering over the earth, strangers to life. All the joys of life are the joys of creation: love, genius, action...
--Romain Rolland (1866-1944), Nobel Prize winner, in "Lightning Strikes Christophe".
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Samuel Johnson: On Pain.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
--Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, London
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