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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

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There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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