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• Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
• No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it…
• Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
• Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my…
• Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
• Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of…
• Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
• Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
• Numbers constitute the only universal language.
• It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that…
• But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
• At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as…

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