Thornton Wilder

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• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  The Woman of Andros (1930), based on Terence’s Andria

  • Life & Death

• I am not interested in the ephemeral — such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

  The New York Times (6 November 1961)

  • Writing

• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

  TIME magazine (3 February 1958)

  • Love

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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