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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

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Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

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