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"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."

"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
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