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The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.


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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.



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The profoundest distances are never geographical.



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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.



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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.



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Time is not a road - it is a room.



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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.



There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.



In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.



Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.



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An answer is always a form of death.





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