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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

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As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me—...

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

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Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.

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His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.

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Hope raises no dust.

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Elephants are contagious.

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A woman is more beautiful than the world in which i live; and so i close my eyes.

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The heart beats thick, Big trout muscle out of the dead cold;

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You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago.

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work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin,...

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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