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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."

"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."

"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."

"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
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