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I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame.

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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight Gaze you therein.

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A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

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To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.

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The head withdraws into its hatch (a boy's), The engines rise to their blind laboring roar,...

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I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,...

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We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

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It was not dying: everybody died.

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

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But really no one is exceptional, No one has anything, I'm anybody,...

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They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;...

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