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“Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.”
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“By the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
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“... the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.”
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“... though in Paradise the lion will lie down with the lamb, in Paradise they will not have to submit their rival political views to general elections.”
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“Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.”
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“Styles in wit change so. ”
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“Say thou dost love me, love me, love me — toll / The silver iterance! — only minding, Dear, / To love me also in silence with thy soul.”
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“The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead ...”