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Teach us to care and not to care

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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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.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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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.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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