Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

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Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

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