"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."

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"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."

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"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."

Death,

"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."

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"Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear."

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"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

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"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

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"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."

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"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."

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"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."

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"Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands."

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"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."

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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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