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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it.

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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

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The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too."

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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.

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Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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