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The best wines take the longes...

The best wines take the longest to mature.

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Medieval theologians used to d...

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

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Love is the mystery between tw...

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

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It's like the day you realize ...

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

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My hatred of crowds, the obvio...

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

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The profoundest distances are ...

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

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That is the great distinction ...

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

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In essence the Renaissance was...

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

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Most marriages recognize this ...

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

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One of the great fallacies of ...

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

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The word is the most imprecise...

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

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Stained glass, engraved glass,...

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

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The American myth is of free w...

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

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I knew words were like chains,...

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

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People who teach you cram old ...

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

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Our knowledge of what the rich...

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

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That's the trouble with provin...

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

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The moon hung over the planet ...

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

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No amount of reading and intel...

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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The price of tapping water int...

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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