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Quote by Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon

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A bachelors life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. – Francis Bacon

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Life
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Francis Bacon

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus

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Ah, but a mans reach should exceed his grasp,
Or whats a heaven for? – Robert Browning

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Discovery

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. – Jean Baudrillard

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Discovery

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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