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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
classic quote by Anais Nin
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Memory is the treasurer and guardian of all things.
classic quote by Cicero
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Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
quote by William Watt
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Infanta: His dancing was funny; but his acting is funnier still. Indeed he is almost as good as the puppets, only of course not quite so natural.
classic line from House of Pomegranates (The Birthday of the Infanta), script by Oscar Wilde (1892)
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Dress well; a stick dressed up does not look like a stick.
Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately, everybody drinks water.
classic quote by Mark Twain
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Without women, life is pure prose.
classic quote by Ruben Dario
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I, Too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
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poem by Langston Hughes
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Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.
Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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The Song Of Finis
At the edge of All the Ages
A Knight sate on his steed,
His armor red and thin with rust
His soul from sorrow freed;
And he lifted up his visor
From a face of skin and bone,
And his horse turned head and whinnied
As the twain stood there alone.
No bird above that steep of time
Sang of a livelong quest;
No wind breathed,
Rest:
"Lone for an end!" cried Knight to steed,
Loosed an eager rein--
Charged with his challenge into space:
And quiet did quiet remain.
poem by Walter de la Mare
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