"He who would search for pearls must dive below."

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Source : 'All for Love' (1678) prologue

John Dryden

“Thereâ€™s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. Thatâ€™s the fascination of archives. Thereâ€™s still a bodily trace.”
“Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”
“The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1985). “Collected works of Joseph Glanvill”
“No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.”
“The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.”
“The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through â€¦”

Source : John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.16, Ardent Media
“There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.”
“I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.”

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