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Art, thou hast many infamies,
But not an infamy like this.
O snap the fife and still the drum
And show the monster as she is.

— Richard Le Gallienne The Illusion of War. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention.

Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.

And mark yon alchemist, with zodiac-spangled zone,
Wrenching the mandrake root that fattens in the gloom.

Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.

There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.

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