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“ What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts. ”

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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