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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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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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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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