"In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?"
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"When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning."
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"Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses."
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"If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately."
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"Plato's cave is full of freaks."
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"I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever"
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"After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave."
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