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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

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I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

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I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

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The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

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It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

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As I sat at the cafe, I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,...

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Thou shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two? No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency:

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

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