Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why sh...
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Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.
