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Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.


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It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.



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I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.



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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.



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