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“In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.”
Source : Maia Wojciechowska (2012). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
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“There are only one or two geniuses every century.”
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“Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.”
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“For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.”
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“It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles”
Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The higher the truth, the simpler it is.”
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“Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.”
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“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
