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Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)

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The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Words can be used thus paradoxically because they have, along with a ...more

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“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.”
― Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

tags: life, living, poetry, time

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