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Beginnings are always messy.

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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

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I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

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I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

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Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

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If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

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The cat is a dilettante in fur.

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A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

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Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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Books follow morals, and not morals books.

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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

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Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

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