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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.