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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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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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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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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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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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