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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse,
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The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever
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Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
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Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
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A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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