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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

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No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

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Music is essentially useless, as is life.

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

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Depression is rage spread thin.

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