"....We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author"

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“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”

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— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Philosophy1762–1814

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— Joe Strummer

Music1952–2002

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"We have never heard Seurat, Cross, Luce, Van de Velde or indeed Van Rysselberghe or Angrand speak of dots. We have never seen them be preoccupied by Pointillism. Read these lines, dictated by Seurat t…"

— Paul Signac

Art1863–1935

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"When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have hea…"

— J. M. Barrie

Literature1860–1937

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