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One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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A short saying often contains much wisdom. ↗

— Sophocles

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books. ↗

— John Green

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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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