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Widow. The word consumes itself.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.

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They hear in every whisper that speaks to them A shout and a cry....

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy

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It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Il...

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There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says "there is no wisdom without leisure."

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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