What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

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Most people have never known solitude. But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

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The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

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Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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I have no friends, there are only people I love.

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

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There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

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