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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

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God made food; the devil the cooks.

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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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As you are now so once were we.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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Redheaded women buck like goats.

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Places remember events.

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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

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