Common sense isn't.
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| The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. |
| ~ Sophocles, Phædra. Frag. 809. ~ |
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| There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday! |
| ~ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141.; George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788-1824) ~ |
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| This is why so many artists, bending under the burden, take refuge in the ivory tower or, conversely, in the social church. But as for me, I see in both choices a like act of resignation. We must simultaneously serve suffering and beauty. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, The Artist And His Time, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| Spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthorne’s soul, the other side—like the dark half of the physical sphere—is shrouded in a blackness, ten times black. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (1850), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). ~ |
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| What a man has, so much he is sure of. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii. ~ |
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| I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. author, speaker, and First Lady. As quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone, ch. 2, by Joseph P. Lash (1972). Said in 1946, the year after the death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). ~ |
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| Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. |
| ~ John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva. Line 1. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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