If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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