Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; m…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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