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The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.


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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.



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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.



It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.



If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.



The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.



It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.



The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.



Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.



We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.



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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.





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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.



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