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• Humanity lives in its fiction.
• One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners…
• A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It…
• I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,…
• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism…
• Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.…
• Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose…
• Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out…

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