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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than…
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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
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The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix…
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring…
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between…
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The…
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
— Thomas Fuller
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