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“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.
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We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
― Shadow & Claw
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We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
― Shadow & Claw
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”
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“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
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because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
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