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" On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. "

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" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. "

" We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. "

" A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. "

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" I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. "

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" When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. "

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" Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? "

" Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. "

" Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? "

" Arrange whatever pieces come your way. "

" Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "

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" The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. "

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" If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. "

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" The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. "

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