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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

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Solomon! where is thy throne? It is gone in the wind. Babylon! where is thy might? It is gone in the wind....

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I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

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When silence and lust mingle, only the deaf can intercede.

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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.

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