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

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"Life itself is a quotation."

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"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."

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"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."

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