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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!


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Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.



Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

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The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.



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