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Quote by Wallace Stevens
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

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Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. – Wallace Stevens

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Religion
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Wallace Stevens
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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Myths, Mythology
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, Id start writing poems about suicide. – Jack Nicholson

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. – Franz Kafka

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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl Jung

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I dont wanna hear nobody complain that theyre getting paid all this money and people wont leave them alone. Its part of it. – Mark Wahlberg

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