"Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations."
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"We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now."
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"Explanations are such cheap poetry."
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"Words are useless, especially sentences."
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"And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?"
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"Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable."
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"Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found."
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"Was he a doper or was he just a loser?"
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"Like a mountain that's growing."
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"Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished."
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"And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh."
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