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"I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet."
"All things must change To something new, to something strange."
"I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing."
"purple does something strange to me"
"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not."
"Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
"But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people."
"There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination."
"I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way"
"The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it."
"Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not."
"Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile."
"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."
"How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all."
"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin."
"How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me."
"When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them."
"To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous."
"What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire."
"For those without fire, any fire is strange fire."
