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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

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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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Hurry up, please, its time.

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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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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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

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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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