"True villains are extremely photogenic."
"If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one."
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Source: Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.151, Vintage
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