"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

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“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”

“Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.”

“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”

“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”

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“A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?”

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Entertainment1900–1967

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Politics1890–1960

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