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It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
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To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
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Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
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Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
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The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.
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The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.
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-Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente...-¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui.-Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de <>, aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios,
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-Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente...-¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui.-Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de "novela", aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios,
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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
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