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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others , men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.