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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
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If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
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The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
April 9, 1821
Died:
August 31, 1867
(aged 46)
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