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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
[ Tradition ]
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
[ Originality ]
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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
[ Life and Living ]
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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
[ Words ]
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
[ Communication ]
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
[ Reality ]
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
[ Futility ]
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
[ Editing and Editors ]
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
[ Fear ]
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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
[ Indecision ]
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In my beginning is my end.
[ Beginning ]
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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
[ Culture ]
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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
[ Tradition ]
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
[ Rebellion ]
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
[ Freedom ]
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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
[ Love ]
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
[ Pride ]
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
[ Risk ]
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Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
[ Success ]
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The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
[ Impulse ]
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
[ Life and Living ]
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
[ Deeds and Good Deeds ]
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
[ Youth ]
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
[ Methods ]
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
[ War ]
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
[ People, Other ]
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
[ Insanity ]
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
[ Information ]
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You are the music while the music lasts.
[ Music ]
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