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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

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