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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

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