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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horro

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra

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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. – Christopher Isherwood

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