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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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He is great enough that is his own master.

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Perfection is the child of time.

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We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

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What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

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And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

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Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

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I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

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