Sum Formula

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“Lest darkness fall and time fall
In a long night when learned arteries
Mounting the ice and sum of barbarous time
Shall yield, without essence, perfect accident.
We are the eyelids of defeated caves.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is: Try to please everybody.”
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