Those who live, live off the dead.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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