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" This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. "

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" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "

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

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" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "

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" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "

" My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. "

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

" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "

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" This love is silent. "

" Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? "

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

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

" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

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

" So the lover must struggle for words. "

" 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. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" In my beginning is my end. "

" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "