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In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...
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We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
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What will happen, will happen.
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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
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Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.
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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.
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Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
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I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.
