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The Minoan Snake Goddess is flanked by a Chardin still-life, somber and tranquil, and by Mohammedan angels...

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putting his hope in certain death, lowering his head again to the grass.

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I would be met and meet you so, in a green airy space, not locked in.

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I remember a dream two nights ago: the voice, 'the artist must create himself or be born again.'

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In the gold mouth of a flower the black smell of spring earth....

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Sixteen. Her breasts round, round, and dark-nippled who now these two months long is bones and tatters of flesh in earth.

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Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

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A changing skyline. A slice of window filled in by a middle-distancing oblong topped by little moving figures.

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and wife or husband who does not lock the door of the marriage...

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Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living,...

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Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

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The Amen of nature is always a flower.

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

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