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"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
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"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
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"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
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