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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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We shall not cease from exploration

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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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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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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