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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
Psychology
"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put."
Determination
"I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock."
Philosophy
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
Imagination
"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
Cause
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
Experience
"Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health."
Knowledge
"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."
Poetry
"In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it."
Life
"I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."
Philosophy
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