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Like all the other young people who have been let alone, she becomes a Socialist.

You see, she hasnt time to find out what life really means. She has to die before she knows.

Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense.

She did not know then that imagination is the beginning of creation.

You should try to have an existence of your own, instead of occupying yourself with my existence.

And when anything no longer interests us we no longer know it.

When you and Adam talk, I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Тогда она ещё не знала, что воображение есть начало созидания. Ты воображаешь себе то, чего хочешь; ты хочешь того, что вообразила, и в конце концов творишь то, чего хочешь.

If I knew I had to die in twenty years it would not be worth my while to educate myself: I should not bother about anything but having a little pleasure while I lasted.