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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and…
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
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I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of…
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which…
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what…
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced…
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And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder…
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And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way…
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at…
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There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those…
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Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does…
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Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers…
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Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole…
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We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating…
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at…
— Lord Dunsany
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It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there…
— John Crowley
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If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
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From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
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Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing.…
— Unknown Author
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