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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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It would have pleased the cosmopolitan spirit of Alfred Nobel to extend the scope of his protectorate of civilization by including within its radius the southern hemisphere of the American continent.

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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

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I remember the legion of professors and teachers who show the foreigner unquestionably exemplary schools, and I look with trusting love to those other members of the Swedish people: farmers, craftsmen, and workers.

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As a daughter of Chilean democracy, I am moved to have before me a representative of the Swedish democratic tradition, a tradition whose originality consists in perpetually renewing itself within the framework of the most valuable creations of society.

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May God preserve this exemplary nation, its heritage and its creations, its efforts to conserve the imponderables of the past and to cross the present with the confidence of maritime people who overcome every challenge.

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The daughter of a new people, I salute the spiritual pioneers of Sweden, by whom I have been helped more than once.

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My homeland, represented here today by our learned Minister Gajardo, respects and loves Sweden, and it has sent me here to accept the special honour you have awarded to it.

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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

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And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

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O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

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Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back With dying eyes and lolling heads, those ashen-gray...

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"Their name liveth for ever," the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied...

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You are too young to fall asleep for ever; And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.

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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

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