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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

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Poetry lies its way to the truth.

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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

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The day will happen whether or not you get up.

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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

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Thou strange piece of wild nature!

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Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

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Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

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When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

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I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

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I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

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