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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."

"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."

"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."
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