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

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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