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Wipe your glasses with what you know.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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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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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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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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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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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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Too excited to be genuinely happy

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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