Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for far to well remembered past.
I am just a non-ordinary person who does non-ordinary things which makes me extra-ordinary.
There's a logic at work – it's all done for you, don't worry. Enjoy it. Relax. To be taken in hand and led, like being a child again, even without the innocence, a child – it's like being given a prize, an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it, as a prize for being good, or compensation for never having had one…Do I contradict myself?
"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today."
"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities."
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards."
"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
"Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy."
"We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."
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