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'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

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Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

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That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

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Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

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There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

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The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

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I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can …

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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

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