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/ page 449 of 1205 /No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
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No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
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People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
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There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
more quotes from Ezra Pound
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry,
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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