That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.Boris Pasternak
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
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