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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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