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“ the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows. ”

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

~ Thornton Wilder

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

~ Thornton Wilder

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude

~ Thornton Wilder

Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

~ Thornton Wilder