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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off…
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
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By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking…
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our…
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the…
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
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A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions…
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The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
— Antonio Machado
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It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to…
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