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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
[ Literature ]
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
[ Complexity ]
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
[ Modern and Modernism ]
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
[ Truth ]
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
[ Spring ]
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
[ Imagination ]
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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