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/ page 634 of 1205 /Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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