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Aldous Huxley

The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

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Amy Winehouse

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don’t think that there’s a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

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Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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Ambrose Bierce

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

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Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Alexander Pope

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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Alexander Pope

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

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Alexander Pope

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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Alexander Pope

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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