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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

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Caress the detail, the divine detail.

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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1977

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