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Only stories and magic really endure.
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Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.
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I know that human life is horrible. I know that it is utterly unlike art. I have no religion except my own task of being. Conventional religions are dream stuff. Always a world of fear and horror lies but a millimetre away. Any man, even the greatest, can be broken in a moment and has no refuge. Any theory which denies this is a lie.
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I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.
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I have been on the whole a lucky man. And I would say that even now. Perhaps especially I would say it now.
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How little perhaps can words convey except in the hands of a genius.
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