it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,


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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the...
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura ...
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