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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity...more

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There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects ...more

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or ...more

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And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations....more

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I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all ...more

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Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.