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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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Lord, what fools these mortals be
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you...
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else...
Quote #11562
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for...
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My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to...
Quote #34192
An exile’s life is no life.
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field,...
Quote #5117
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air...