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"The battered woman-for she wore a skirt-with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love-love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over."

"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."

"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."

"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."

"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."

"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man."
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
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