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From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

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They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

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They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

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Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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I like to see life with its teeth out.

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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

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For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

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The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

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If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

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Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

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