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  1. 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its ent…
  2. Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
  3. I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
  4. What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
  5. To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
  6. The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
  7. Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
  8. The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the…

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