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• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton
• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Hans Arp
• To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and… — Andre Gide
• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P.J. O'Rourke
• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy
• Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. — Jose Marti
• Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying… — Eoin Colfer
• First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can… — Michel de Certeau
• Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows.… — Sri Chinmoy
• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Unknown Author

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