Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.Samuel Beckett
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Words are all we have.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Make sense who may. I switch off.
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