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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.
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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
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Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.
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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you
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A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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