The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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And the rest is rust and stardust.

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We think not in words but in shadows of words.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

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