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In a room on the floor below, Sunless, cooler—a brimming Saucer of wax, marbly and dim— I have lit what's left of my life.

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What had the man done? Oh, made history. Her business (he had implied) was giving birth, Tending the house, mending the socks.

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

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