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Time and Free Will

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

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“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.”
― Walter Benjamin

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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
― Leonora Carrington (Down Below)

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

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