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/ page 573 of 1205 /We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
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It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
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There growes the flowre of peace, The Rose that cannot wither,
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But thou beneath the sad and heavy line Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark;...
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"Lord," then said I, "on me one breath, And let me die before my death!"
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Then whisper by that holy spring, Where for her sake I would have died,...
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Dear, beauteous Death! the jewel of the just, Shining nowhere, but in the dark;
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
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Obedience is the fruit of faith.
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
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