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• When I hear the word "Culture" I pick up my Browning. -- Hanns Johst (1890-?)
• Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver,-- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge
  One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge....
• The message of history is clear: the past lies before us.
• How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Saul, ix...
• I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- In a Balcony...
• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can.
  And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance...
• For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• I will not carve gods.
• The future lies ahead. The past lies, lies, lies...