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"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."

"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."

"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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