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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."
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"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."
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"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
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"It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."
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"Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."
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"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."
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"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
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"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
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"Common sense is very uncommon."
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"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
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"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
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"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
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"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
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