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• Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess.
  -- Gandalf the Grey...
• We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all.
• We prefer to speak evil of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all.
• Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselve
  and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill....
• We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth -- at least the truth that is given us to understand.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)...
• Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptyness below us.
  ..the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. -- Milan Kundera...
• Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others.
  We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. -- Jean Guitto...
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...