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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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" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "

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" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

" Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. "

" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "

" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "

" 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. "

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

" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

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

" Home is where one starts from. "

" O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. "

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

" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "

" Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. "

" Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. "

" April is the cruellest month. "

" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "

" We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. "

" Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. "

" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

" This love is silent. "

" There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "