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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have succeeded in arresting some casual wing of thought as it flew, some transient wave of emotion as it subsided… – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883

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