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It is never the thing but the version of the thing.


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True villains are extremely photogenic.

True villains are extremely photogenic.



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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.



The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.



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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.



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The imagination is one of the forces of nature.



Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.



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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.



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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.



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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.



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It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.





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