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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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The journey, Not the destination matters.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

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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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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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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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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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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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