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Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

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I dream, therefore I exist.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

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