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The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

— Heinrich Heine

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967)

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

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