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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing

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