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"Beauty is momentary in the mind --
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal."
-- Wallace Stevens
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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
-- Robert MacKay
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"I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all my ancestors."
-- Jorge Luis Borges
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"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself."
-- Gore Vidal
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"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."
-- H. P. Lovecraft
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"Listen to them -- the children of the night. What music they make!"
-- Bram Stoker
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving."
-- William Shakespeare
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"Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
-- Marcel Proust
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"If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend."
-- Baltasar Gracián
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
-- Walt Whitman
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