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Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

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...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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Believing where we cannot prove.

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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower

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But how is...legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals.

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Get busy living or get busy dying.

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

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Either move or be moved.

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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic - I mean my motion.

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voila une chose! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voila une chose!

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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