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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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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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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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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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Past art is subject to change.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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Every moment is a fresh beginning.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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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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Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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