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Testimony to the Dawes Commission (22 August 1883)
“Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.”
— Paulo Coelho, book Aleph
Aleph (2011)
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