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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6- The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6, section, A Good Soldier as translated by Woods (1996), p. 506
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Essays of Three Decades (1942)
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
