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Style is thought put to music.

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Reading a great work is being granted an audience with a great mind.

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Looking death in the eye is like staring into the sun; for a while, you see its impression everywhere, stare too long and you see nothing else.

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Paradise, as a symbol, represents what we are denied in our earthly existence. To the thinker, this means: the certainty of answers.

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Temptation: seeds we are forbidden to water, that are showered with rain.

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Time forbids attachments. Clinging to a particular time is courting madness.

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Art: trail of breadcrumbs left by artists, for themselves and others, to remember the Way

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Myths are history, too; the history of the human imagination.

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Certain strains of writing are a form of life-support, stretched across space and time, to sustain world-weary readers.

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If one is otherwise engaged, it tends to leave them alone.

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Envious of natural disasters, men have created their own.

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Miracles are proud creatures; they will not reveal themselves to those who do not Believe.

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The notion of family is merely a comforting fallacy. In truth, there are only relative strangers.

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Idol worship: a perversion of self-worship.

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Marrying for looks is like buying books for their pictures - a good idea, if one cannot read.

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Two things that stain the mind, long after they have stained the hands: blood and newspapers.

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The human animal is best revealed to others in their natural environment, yet best revealed to themselves outside it.

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To be self taught is to have learned from oneself.

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Free will is bad advice.

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Thinkers are marked men, branded apart from life. But, unlike other brands, theirs burns for life.

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