Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.Cyril Connolly
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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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