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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

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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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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

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