"I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us."
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"The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life."
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"Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions"
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"In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day."
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