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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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