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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it be...more

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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

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At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginnin...more