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by Jorge Luis Borges
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
by Albert Camus
THERE is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.
by Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert
THE earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual.
by Emma Goldman
Propagandism is not, as some suppose, a "trade," because nobody will follow a "trade" at which you may work with the ind...
by Henry van Dyke, Ruth Sergel
IN the days when Augustus Caesar was master of many kings and Herod reigned in Jerusalem, there lived in the city of Ecb...
by William Gibson
I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was ...
by Flannery O'Connor
The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida.