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"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
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"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."
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"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."

"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."

"They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."

"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."

"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."
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