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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

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It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

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Words make love with one another.

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I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.

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Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

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