Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

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To survive, you must tell stories.

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

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Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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