"If we had a keen vision of all ordinary human life,
it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heartbeat,
and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken
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