Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
~ T.S. Eliot
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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ H. L. Mencken
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
~ Rollo May
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