"My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands."
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"The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief."
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"A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation"
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"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person."
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"A human being can stand any amount of pain."
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"Give me a lamp so I can find the day."
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"Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?"
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"Money to a writer is time to write."
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"His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives."
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"To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule"
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"There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover."
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"Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language."
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"What does a mirror look at?"
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"I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard."
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"Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know."
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"What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?"
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"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
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"Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said."
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"A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips."
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"“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”"
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