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“O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
― T.S. Eliot

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
― William Butler Yeats

“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
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― Terentianus Maurus, De syllabis (Hypomnemata)

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde