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The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
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Philip Larkin
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"All art is quite useless."
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Oscar Wilde
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"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
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Winston Churchill
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"I fear we have not yet got rid of God because we still believe in grammar."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Language has raped the world!"
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Bo Fowler
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"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
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Alan Moore
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"Life... is a disease: sexually transmitted and invariably fatal."
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Neil Gaiman
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"One owes respect to the living. To the dead one owes only truth."
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Voltaire
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways: the point is to change it."
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Karl Marx
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"It seems comical and miserable that in order to manifest itself, dread, which opens and closes the sky, needs the activity of a writer sitting at their table and forming letters on a piece of paper."
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Maurice Blanchot
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
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Lewis Carroll
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"When the world was adrift on the stormy waves of the Cold War, I established The Washington Times to fulfill God's desperate desire to save this world."
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Sun Myung Moon
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
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Helen Keller
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"The fact is that the vast majority of people are absolutely impervious to facts. Test the average man by asking him to listen to a simple sentence which contains one word with associations to excite his prejudices, fears or passions -- he will fail to understand what you have said and reply by expressing his emotional reaction to the critical word ... Even to this day, it surprises me that there should be minds which are unable to accept any impression equably and critically."
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Aleister Crowley
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