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Samuel Butler
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." -
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Samuel Butler
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"To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
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"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."
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"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
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"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
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