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He who does not know how to create should not know.

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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

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If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

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I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

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It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

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