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Live the questions.

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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

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Morality is the weakness of the mind.

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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

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There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

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