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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

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The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

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I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

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It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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